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

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

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

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.

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

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