All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.

But his Lordship [tells]us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I cannot comprehend nor conceive this. For methinks it implies also that the whole world is also in the whole God, and in every part of God. Norcan I find anything of this in the Scripture. If I could find it there, I could believe it; and if I could find it in the public doctrine of the Church, I could easily abstain from contradicting it.

The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.