As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well.

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.

Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.