"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

"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."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."

"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle."

"Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine."