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.

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

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

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

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on ... And if we are ignorant of the most obvious things about us, and the most considerable within our selves, 'tis then no wonder that we know not the constitution and powers of the creatures, to whom we are such strangers.