They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

Fortune favours the audacious.

It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.