Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.