The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

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.

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

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

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

Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.