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

By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently.

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

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

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

Covenants without swords are but words.

Corporations are "worms in the body politic"