“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”

“I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.”

“You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.”

“When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”

“We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.”

“You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you”

“Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.”