"The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before."

"Hope is necessary in every condition."

"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."

"In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money."

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill."

"Although the most acute judges of the witches, & even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was nonexistent. It is thus with all guilt."

"Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth."

"To read your own poetry in public is a kind of mental incest."

"World only has two things: Things you can eat and things you can no eat."

"A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind."

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread."