"Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired."

"It is a maxim very generally received, that a man of great wit has a very short memory."

"The difference between a madman and a sane man is that the madman is in a minority."

"I have always held the principle that a nation should be governed by laws, and not by the caprice of a monarch."

"What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly: that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage."