The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing.

A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.

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.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

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