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.

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.

Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.

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

Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.

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