Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.

No arts, no letters - no society.

The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.

Corporations are "worms in the body politic"