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.

Can it then be doubted, but that God, who is infinitely fine Spirit, and withal intelligent, can make and change all species and kind of body as he pleaseth? But I dare not say, that this is the way by which God Almighty worketh, because it is past my apprehension: yet it serves very well to demonstrate, that the omnipotence of God implieth no contradiction.

For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

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

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.