And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the L, she came to prove him with hard questions.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORD1 Kings10:1.

Prove all things; hold fast that which isgood.

-Bible (NewTestament)
  Thessalonians 5:21.

I could prove God statistically.

-Gallup, George Horace
Attributed.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted and when to be obeyed.

-Hawthorne, Nathaniel
  The Blithedale Romance, ch.2.

New every morning is the love Our wakening and uprising prove.

-Keble,John
  The ChristianYear,'Morning'.

Above all I was determined to prove that the Australian novel is not necessarily the dreary, dun-coloured offspring of journalistic realism.

-White, Patrick Victor Martindale
  Essay on his literary career, in Australian Letters,'The Prodigal Son', vol.1, no.3, Apr.