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

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

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.

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

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

The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.