I put a poor youth, if he be wise, before an aged prince devoid of wisdom. - Gregory Thaumaturgus

For men who lie on earth there is but one salvation, that their souls acknowledge and wing their way to Him by whom they have been made.

If wisdom follows knowledge, so troubles attend on wisdom.

As Goliath had his head cut off with his own sword, so also is the devil, who has been the father of death, put to rout through death (Heb 2:14); and he finds that the selfsame thing which he was wont to use as the ready weapon of his deceit, has become the mighty instrument of his own destruction. Yea, if we may so speak, casting his hook at the Godhead, and seizing the wonted enjoyment of the baited pleasure, he is himself manifestly caught while he deems himself the captor, and discovers that in place of the man he has touched the God.