“Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.”

Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.

A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso’er it deviates from these rules, The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.

Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.

See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.

Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.

Peace and wickedness are far asunder.

Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.

If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.

At whatever time highly skilled physicians shall have developed the healing of illnesses by means of foods, and shall make provision for simple foods, and shall prohibit humankind from living as slaves to their lustful appetites.

You mean in the state?

Music is only a means to an end – it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

To oppose knowledge is ignorant, and he who detests knowledge and science is not a man, but rather an animal without intelligence.

The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust,

Illnesses which occur because of physical causes should be treated by doctors with medical remedies; those which are due to spiritual causes disappear through spiritual means. contradictory.

Woman must especially devote her energies and abilities toward the industrial and agricultural sciences, seeking to assist mankind in that which is most needful.