It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.

Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.

We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.