"I have been reading a book of travels. I do not know when I have been so much amused. It is a pity that so few of our travellers write like rational creatures."

"I am as much a High-Churchman as ever I was."

"It is not the being in a place, but the being in a state, that makes us happy."

"The rich, the honourable, the great, will hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven."

"I have often wished, that all the books in the world were burnt, except the Bible."