A man lives by believing something.

When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

Laughter means sympathy.

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.