Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.

With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.

A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.

Think before you act; think twice before you speak.