We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.

True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.

A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven.

Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood.