The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

Power to do good is the true and lawful act of aspiring; for good thoughts (though God accept them), yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.

He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.