“but whether he be, or whether he be not, I want bread.”

“When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?”

“Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”

“He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.”

“I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want.”

“The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.”

“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”