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

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

Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.

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

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.

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