Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.