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• only now and again a blaze shone out, not of their kindling, terrible to behold; and fear of this unseen radiance lent fresh horror to the sights it shewed.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 6)

• Imagination, already defeated within its own stronghold, fears the unknown more than it fears the true source of its misery. (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 12)

• all was foretold by the dreams that so disquieted them; they were not suffered to perish ignorant of their offence. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 19)

• too high her teaching to be plainly revealed, too manifold her movements to be understood. (Ecclesiasticus 1, 7)

• Wisdom it is that imparts to us all our knowledge, all our powers of discernment; hold her fast, and she will set thee on a pinnacle of renown; (Ecclesiasticus 1, 24)

• for gold and silver the crucible, it is in the furnace of humiliation men shew themselves worthy of his acceptance. (Ecclesiasticus 2, 5)

• Trust in him, and he will lift thee to thy feet again; go straight on thy way, and fix in him thy hope; hold fast thy fear of him, and in that fear to old age come thou. (Ecclesiasticus 2, 6)

• My son, when thy father grows old, take him to thyself; long as he lives, never be thou the cause of his repining. (Ecclesiasticus 3, 14)

• Life the prize, if thou hold her fast; come she in at the door, God’s blessing comes with her; (Ecclesiasticus 4, 14)

• Wouldst thou hold another man’s honour dearer than thy own, and swear the lie at thy soul’s peril? (Ecclesiasticus 4, 26)

• Withhold not thy counsel while safety may yet be won; thy wisdom is not to be hidden away like a veiled beauty. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 28)

• Ill it were that sin’s pardon should embolden thee to sin afresh. (Ecclesiasticus 5, 5)