"The falling drops at last will wear the stone."

"Such evil deeds could religion prompt."

"What is food to one, is to others bitter poison."

"If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets."

"There is nothing like good food, good wine, and a bad girl."

"Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought."

"I've always been crazy, but it's kept me from going insane."

"All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago."

"Only the shallow know themselves."

"Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion."