The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis.

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

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.

There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.

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

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.

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