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

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

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

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.

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

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

And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness, Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.