No one can display or can cultivate a fervent zeal in the mere repetition of a form.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune cannot take away. That for which he is indebted to circumstances is mere trapping and tinsel.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.