To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility.
The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.