The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

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

There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

Reason is the Soul of the Law.

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.