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We that are bound by vows and by promotion,
With pomp of holy sacrifice and rites,
To teach belief in good and still devotion,
To preach of heaven’s wonders and delights—
Yet, when each of us in his own heart looks,
He finds the God there far unlike his books.
—Fulke Greville (1554–1628)

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

[The human mind] finds more facility in assenting to the self-existence of an invisible cause possessing infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, than in the self-existence of the universe, visibly destitute of these attributes, and which may be the effect of them.
—James Madison (1751–1836)