It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.

I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.