The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.

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

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

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

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.