“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.”

“Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”

“When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.”

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

“The more a man knows, the less he talks.”

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

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”