Sir W. TempleThinkers

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom ; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

The Book is like a proverb in that it receives its chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which it has passed.

Man is a thinking being, whether he will or no; all he can do is to turn his thoughts to best way.