No One Respects A Talent

If You Look At History You'll Find That No State Has Been So Plagued By Its Rulers As When Power Has Fallen Into The Hands Of Some Dabbler In Philosophy Or Literary Addict.

Almost All Christians Being Wretchedly Enslaved To Blindness And Ignorance, Which The Priests Are So Far From Preventing Or Removing, That They Blacken The Darkness, And Promote The Delusion: Wisely Foreseeing That The People (like Cows, Which Never Give Down Their Milk So Well As When They Are Gently Stroked), Would Part With Less If They Knew More.

Only A Very Few Can Be Learned, But All Can Be Christian, All Can Be Devout, And – I Shall Boldly Add – All Can Be Theologians.

No One Respects A Talent That Is Concealed.

Apothegms Are In History, The Same As Pearls In The Sand, Or Gold In The Mine.