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

What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.

It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.

How the purer spirit is united to his clod, is a knot too hard for fallen humanity to untie.

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

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

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