"To be more than man, is not to be man."

"For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By His permissive will, through Heaven and Earth."

"For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are."

"The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love him, and to imitate him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue."

"To measure things by things, and not by names."