I mean by the universe, the aggregate of all things that have being in themselves; and so do all men else. And because God has a being, it follows that he is either the whole universe, or part of it. Nor does his Lordship go about to disprove it, but only seems to wonder at it.

Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.

It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.

The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

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.

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body

Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.