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

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and not by their mediocrity, nor by their being commended. For several men praise several customs, and, contrarily, what one calls vice, another calls virtue, as their present affections lead them.

Corporations are "worms in the body politic"

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

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.