Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.

Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.

It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

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