This is my destiny — I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can and can't do!

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

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

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.

A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.