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

Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

For if I should not believe all that is written by Historians, of the glorious acts of Alexander, or Caesar; I do not think the Ghost of Alexander, or Caesar, had any just cause to be offended; or any body else, but the Historian. If Livy say the Gods made once a Cow speak, and we believe it not; we distrust not God therein, but Livy. So that it is evident, that whatsoever we believe, upon no other reason, then what is drawn from authority of men only, and their writings; whether they be sent from God or not, is Faith in men only.

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.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance]do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they atheists? No. For though by ignorance of the consequence they said that which was equivalent to atheism, yet in their hearts they thought God a substanceSo that this atheism by consequence is a very easy thing to be fallen into, even by the most godly men of the church.

Nature itself cannot err