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

Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.

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

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin.... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin; but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

To conclude, The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is the pace; Encrease of Science, the way; and the Benefit of man-kind, the end.