It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

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

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

A great leap in the dark

For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

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