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

Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.

Nature itself cannot err

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.

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

The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts.