When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.

Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.

For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies.

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.