The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.

The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.

But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.