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

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

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

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.