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.

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

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.

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.

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

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