By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.

Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.

The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as in forming their minds and manners aright; they use all possible methods to infuse, very early, into the tender and flexible minds of children, such opinions as are both good in themselves and will be useful to their country, for when deep impressions of these things are made at that age, they follow men through the whole course of their lives, and conduce much to preserve the peace of the government, which suffers by nothing more than by vices that rise out of ill opinions.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.