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

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.

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.

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

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

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

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