What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.

Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.

To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.