God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.