“Nothing but vast wisdom and onlimited power should dare sweep men off in multitudes,' he added; 'for it is only the one that can know the necessity of the judgement; and what is there short of the other, that can replace the creatures of the Lord?”

“To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-- or both.”

“...The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches… born to those who have thrice defiedhim, born as the seventh month dies… and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will havepower the Dark Lord knows not… and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live whilethe other survives… the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies…”

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”

“Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?”

“Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and counsel, or strength of man? It is the Lord only. God will curse that man and his house that dares to think otherwise. Sir, you see the work is done by a Divine leading. God gets into the hearts of men, and persuades them to come under you.”