The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.