"The great advantage of being a fool is that one is always content with oneself."

"I am a very melancholy man, but I love to laugh."

"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."

"Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life."

"I never was much of a believer in human perfectibility."