The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

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

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

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

Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

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

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.