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.

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

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

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

To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence.

Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.

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.