I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

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

Love is a person's idea about his/her needs in other person what you are attracted to.

The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

If God bestowed immortality on every man then when he made him, and he made many to whom he never purposed to give his saving grace, what did his Lordship think that God gave any man immortality with purpose only to make him capable of immortal torments? It is a hard saying, and I think cannot piously be believed. I am sure it can never be proved by the canonical Scripture.

That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.