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.

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

The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.

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

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

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.

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