"Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine."

"Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived."

"Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old."

"I am not concerned to prove the justice of my opinion, but to show its usefulness."

"I have spent my time in writing, and have not been a man of action."