Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are shewing you the grounds of it.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice: whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

There seem near as many people that want passion as want reason.

A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo.

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence.…

I trust that I have now made amends for any ambiguity, or want of fulness, in my previous exposition of that which I hold to be the essence of the Agnostic doc…

The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to ow…