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.

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

What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.

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.

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.

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.

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