Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

The reputation of power IS power.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

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.

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

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.