Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.

All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally from this head, to wit, that we are under an invincible blindness as to the true and real nature of things.

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.

Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.

It is a mistake, to think the same thing affects both sight and touch. If the same angle or square, which is the object of touch,be also the object of vision, what should hinder the blind man, at first sight, from knowing it?

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.