"The devil, in his malice, has put into the world a great number of books that are called chivalric romances, which, though they are full of lies and follies, are read with great pleasure by many peopl…"

"To err is human, to forgive divine."

"Good men are not in need of laws, but bad men are."

"Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water."

"The man who is good for nothing is fit for nothing."