The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.

If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility.

Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need to remember what every name he uses stands for; and to place it accordingly; or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime-twigs; the more he struggles, the more belimed.

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

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.