To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.

While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.