If there be no enemy, no fight; if do fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown.

Lord! teach me the way my soul should walk.

It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee.

Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak save as the ancients spake, but they refuse to think save as the ancients thought. God speaks to us, too, and the best thoughts are those now being vouchsafed to us. We will excel the ancients!

It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.

If there be no enemy, no fight; if do fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown.

Whoever excommunicates me, excommunicates God.