And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

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 precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.

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.

The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they that love one another for their opinionative concurrence, love for their own sakes, not their Lord's.

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