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

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

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

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.

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.