The initiated only were admitted; and whoever disclosed their secrets, was put to an ignominious death. […] Minerva was the only divinity that seemed equal to Jupiter. […] Ulysses and Orpheus were the only two passengers, who escaped their machinations. […] Who were the only two passengers, that escaped their machinations? […] We shall speak only of those best known.

In some places, only incense was consumed upon her altars; in others, a white goat was sacrificed. […] Apis was venerated not as a symbol only, but as an incarnation of some daemon or spiritual being; for when one sacred bull died, and another was substituted, the people imagined that they still adored the same being, who had only undergone a new transmigration. […] The elements were not the only immediate and sensible objects of worship to the votaries of this religion. […] Their statues were, at first, only testimonies of civil honour, which, in process of time, was heightened into religious reverence. […] Her priests were seated on the ground when they sacrificed, and offered only the hearts of the victims.