The better I know men the more I admire dogs. (?)
The better part of valour is discretion. 1 Hen. IV., v. 4.
The better you understand yourself, the less cause you will find to love yourself. Thomas à Kempis.
The Bible contains many truths as yet undiscovered. 20 Butler.
The Bible contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they have been written. Sir William Jones.
(The Bible) contains plain teaching for men of every rank of soul and state of life, which so far as they honestly and implicitly obey, they will be happy and innocent to the utmost powers of their nature, and capable of victory over all adversities, whether of temptation or pain. Ruskin.
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews. Heine.
The Bible of a nation, the practically credited God's message to a nation, is, beyond all else, the authentic biography of its heroic souls. This is the real record of the appearances of God in the history of a nation; this, which all men to the marrow of their bones can believe, and which teaches all men what the nature of this universe, when you go to work in it, really is. Carlyle.
The Bible tells us what Christian graces are; 25 but it is in the struggle of life that we are to find them. Beecher.
The biography of a nation embraces all its works. No trifle is to be neglected. A mouldering medal is a letter of twenty centuries. Willmott.