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.

We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.

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.

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

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.

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

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