For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.

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

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.

And I profess still, that whatsoever the church of England (the church, I say, not every doctor) shall forbid me to say in matterof faith, I shall abstain from saying it, excepting this point, that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died for my sins. As for other doctrines, I think it unlawful, if the church define them, for any member of the church to contradict them.