"What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman."

"I have always been a friend of the oppressed, and an enemy of the oppressor."

"Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers."

"Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it."

"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."