They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

If God bestowed immortality on every man then when he made him, and he made many to whom he never purposed to give his saving grace, what did his Lordship think that God gave any man immortality with purpose only to make him capable of immortal torments? It is a hard saying, and I think cannot piously be believed. I am sure it can never be proved by the canonical Scripture.

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

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

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.