Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with fine expressions when they understand not reason.

They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then am I superstitious in not wearing black.

We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.

To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.