Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.

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.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

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

Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.

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

The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.