“After all, it is no more surprising to me to be born twice than it is to be born once.”

“It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.”

“All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.”

“I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.”

“Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.”

“when man was put into the garden of eden, he was put there with the idea that he should work the land; and this proves that man was not born to be idle.”

“I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.”