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

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies.

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.