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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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