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Did we but compare the miserable scantiness of our capacities with the vast profundity of things, truth and modesty would teach us wary language. - [Ignorance] 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. - [Religion] Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature. - [Justice] Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation. - [Obstinacy] Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance. - [Pretension] The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity. - [Controversy] The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis. - [Opinion] The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties. - [Understanding] The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden. - [Women] There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective. - [Style] These spiritual joys are dogged by no sad sequels. - [Joy] They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions. - [Prejudice] Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed. - [Time] We deride all that is pardonable in us from ancient fountains.-Dryden. The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis. - [Ancients] We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage. - [Antiquity]
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