It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.

Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

For if I should not believe all that is written by Historians, of the glorious acts of Alexander, or Caesar; I do not think the Ghost of Alexander, or Caesar, had any just cause to be offended; or any body else, but the Historian. If Livy say the Gods made once a Cow speak, and we believe it not; we distrust not God therein, but Livy. So that it is evident, that whatsoever we believe, upon no other reason, then what is drawn from authority of men only, and their writings; whether they be sent from God or not, is Faith in men only.

There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else he cannot be obeyed. But I never said that a king, and every one of his persons, are the same substance.

Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.