The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.

True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.

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.

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.