The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.

We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on ... And if we are ignorant of the most obvious things about us, and the most considerable within our selves, 'tis then no wonder that we know not the constitution and powers of the creatures, to whom we are such strangers.

The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they that love one another for their opinionative concurrence, love for their own sakes, not their Lord's.

They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.

How the purer spirit is united to his clod, is a knot too hard for fallen humanity to untie.

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

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