"The eye of the understanding is like the eye of the body; it sees all things else, but cannot see itself."

"The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to search it out."

"The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain."

"The root of all evil is the love of money."

"Imperial expansion is preferable to civil war, and that Britain is faced with something of a binary choice."