This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin.... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin; but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.

Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.

Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.

When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other either drawn from that by consequence, or not known to be contradictory to it; then (when he is not present to explicate himself better) we are to take the former of his opinions; for that is clearly signified to be his, and directly, whereas the other might proceed from error in the deduction, or ignorance of the repugnancy.

As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.