Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.