"I am not so mad, as to play the part of a fool, to my own destruction."

"They have no priests among them, but such as are chosen by the people."

"They have no beggars among them, nor any other idle people."

"They detest war as a very brutal thing, and which, to the reproach of human nature, is more practiced by beasts than by men."

"I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness."