Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony ... If our hearts were as pure, as chaste, as snowy as Pythagoras' was, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars.

Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.

Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.

In naked beauty most adorned.

The sacred influence of light appears.

Justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries.

Death from sin no power can separate.