Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.