Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.

Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

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

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

No more like together than is chalke to coles.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.