Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.

That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.

The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects; leavingthe world, and the Philosophy thereof, to the disputation of men, for the exercising of their natural Reason.

Covenants without swords are but words.

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

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.

And I profess still, that whatsoever the church of England (the church, I say, not every doctor) shall forbid me to say in matterof faith, I shall abstain from saying it, excepting this point, that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died for my sins. As for other doctrines, I think it unlawful, if the church define them, for any member of the church to contradict them.