“There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.”
“None are so busy as the fool and knave.”
“For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.”
“If a man can hear the truth he's spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools..........”
“Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astrayJews wildered, Magians far on error's way.We mortals are composed of two great schoolsEnlightened knaves or else religious fools.”
“A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave”