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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.