"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense."

"Of all the dispositions of the mind, envy is the most diabolical, and the most productive of misery."

"And that this boasted lord of nature Is both a weak and erring creature."

"I have always been a great admirer of the proverb, 'Necessity is the mother of invention'."

"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it."