Silence Is The Maturation Of Wisdom.

Giving Is Most Blessed And Most Acceptable When The Donor Remains Completely Anonymous.

You Will Certainly Not Doubt The Necessity Of Studying Astronomy And Physics, If You Are Desirous Of Comprehending The Relation Between The World And Providence As It Is In Reality, And Not According To Imagination.

It Is Man's Duty To Love And To Fear God, Even Without Hope Of Reward Or Fear Of Punishment.

When Reading My Present Treatise, Bear In Mind That By "faith" We Do Not Understand Merely That Which Is Uttered With The Lips, But Also That Which Is Apprehended By The Soul, The Conviction That The Object [of Belief] Is Exactly As It Is Apprehended. If, As Regards Real Or Supposed Truths, You Content Yourself With Giving Utterance To Them In Words, Without Apprehending Them Or Believing In Them, Especially If You Do Not Seek Real Truth, You Have A Very Easy Task As, In Fact, You Will Find Many Ignorant People Professing Articles Of Faith Without Connecting Any Idea With Them.

Do Not Imagine That These Most Difficult Problems Can Be Thoroughly Understood By Any One Of Us.