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.

Covenants without swords are but words.

But his Lordship [tells]us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I cannot comprehend nor conceive this. For methinks it implies also that the whole world is also in the whole God, and in every part of God. Norcan I find anything of this in the Scripture. If I could find it there, I could believe it; and if I could find it in the public doctrine of the Church, I could easily abstain from contradicting it.

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

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.

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.