I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

Nature (the Art whereby God hath made and governs the World) is by the Art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an Artificial Animal. For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say, into Eternal life, that is to say, to Remission of Sin. For as Eternal life was lost by the committing, so it is recovered by the remitting of men's sins.