When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

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

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.

It is manifest therefore that they who have sovereign power, are immediate rulers of the church under Christ, and all others but subordinate to them. If that were not, but kings should command one thing upon pain of death, and priests another upon pain of damnation, it would be impossible that peace and religion should stand together.

The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?