“No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.”

Man’s salvation and perfection consists of doing the will of God which he must have in view in all things, and at every moment of his life.

My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.

If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.

Every man is the son of his own works.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

I’ve only slept with men I’ve been married to. How many women can make that claim?

A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.