Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.

Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion

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.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.