Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

Time hath a taming hand.

The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.

Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.