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

How the purer spirit is united to his clod, is a knot too hard for fallen humanity to untie.

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.

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

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

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