In this way he dams the stream and prevents the issuing waters, and puts out and kills in a moment all desire and hope of knowledge, declaring that harmony is preëstablished, or what is the same thing, that the preëstablishment is an occult quality.[…]I shall not here entertain the question, how far these propositions are consistent with the foregoing, or with the system of preëstablishment;

When solar beams / Parch thirsty human veins, the damask'd meads, / Unforc'd display ten thousand painted flow'rs / Useful in potables.

Nature has three great stages, through which she carries each and all: there is first a false affirmative, then a false negative; then there is the combining doctrine, which destroys the error by destroying the partiality and exclusiveness of both.

She said Johnson was “a better man than many of your detractors will ever understand”, adding that it was “so desperately sad that you let yourself down by making a scurrilous accusation against the leader of the opposition”.