Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.

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.

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

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

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.