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.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

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

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

But his Lordship [tells]us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I cannot comprehend nor conceive this. For methinks it implies also that the whole world is also in the whole God, and in every part of God. Norcan I find anything of this in the Scripture. If I could find it there, I could believe it; and if I could find it in the public doctrine of the Church, I could easily abstain from contradicting it.