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

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.

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

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.

When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other either drawn from that by consequence, or not known to be contradictory to it; then (when he is not present to explicate himself better) we are to take the former of his opinions; for that is clearly signified to be his, and directly, whereas the other might proceed from error in the deduction, or ignorance of the repugnancy.