Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.
Money is the excellent slave and a horrible master.
Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.