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

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

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

Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say, into Eternal life, that is to say, to Remission of Sin. For as Eternal life was lost by the committing, so it is recovered by the remitting of men's sins.

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

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.