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

There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.

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

No matter how bad that you think things are going in your life, some people would still consider your state of living a blessing compared to theirs.

Whatever you do, do something positive.

The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the voice of the illness, but the illness didn't sit quietly.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for no wind is the right wind.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

You can see exile as loss, and then it will be a loss for you. You can treat it as opportunity and then all kinds of benefits accrue.

Lobsters one of the only animals that have to put up with being alive in the restaurant. If you go to a steakhouse, folks - no cow tank.

I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.