"I am a very skeptical man, and I question everything."

"Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp."

"God would have made his Will known without books, considering how very few could read when Jesus of Nazareth lived, had it been His pleasure to ratify any peculiar mode of worship."

"All the pious deeds performed on Earth can never entitle a man to everlasting happiness."

"Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers."