The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

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.

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

The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

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

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.