Knowledge is power.
All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.
Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.
If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.