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 understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.

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

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.

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.

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