Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.

The Pacts and Covenants, by which the parts of this Body Politique were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that Fiat, or the Let us make man, pronounced by God in the Creation.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

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

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

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.