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

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

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

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.

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.

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.