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

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.

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

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

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.

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

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