I see her mind ripening under my eyes; and in its fair fertility what ever-teeming novelties of thought! O Mejnour! how many of our tribe have unravelled the laws of the universe,--have solved the riddles of the exterior nature, and deduced the light from darkness! And is not the POET, who studies nothing but the human heart, a greater philosopher than all?
Knowledge and atheism are incompatible.

To know Nature is to know that there must be a God.
But does it require this to examine the method and architecture of creation?
Methinks, when I look upon a pure mind, however ignorant and childlike, that I see the August and Immaterial One more clearly than in all the orbs of matter which career at His bidding through space.
Rightly is it the fundamental decree of our order, that we must impart our secrets only to the pure.

The most terrible part of the ordeal is in the temptations that our power affords to the criminal.

If it were possible that a malevolent being could attain to our faculties, what disorder it might introduce into the globe! Happy that it is NOT possible; the malevolence would disarm the power.

It is in the purity of Viola that I rely, as thou more vainly hast relied on the courage or the genius of thy pupils.