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.

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.

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.

What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.

The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.

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

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.