We Have All A Propensity To Grasp

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.

Even The Atheists... Readily Acknowledge It For An Indubitable Truth, That There Must Be Something... Which Was Never Made Or Produced - And Which Therefore Is The Cause Of Those Other Things That Are Made, Something... Whose Existence Must Needs Be Necessary... Wherefore All The Question Now Is, What Is This... Self-existent Thing, Which Is The Cause Of All Other Things That Are Made.

Now All The Knowledge And Wisdom That Is In Creatures, Whether Angels Or Men, Is Nothing Else But A Participation Of That One Eternal, Immutable And Increased Wisdom Of God.

Christ Was Vitoe Magister, Not Scholoe; And He Is The Best Christian Whose Heart Beats With The Purest Pulse Towards Heaven; Not He Whose Head Spinneth Out The Finest Cobwebs.

True Zeal Is An Ignis Lambeus, A Soft And Gentle Flame, That Will Not Scorch One's Hand.