"The passions that incline men to peace, are fear of death; desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living; and a hope by their industry to obtain them."

"And therefore, if a man consider that argument, which is drawn from the common consent of all nations, to prove there is a God; he must not think it an argument of God's existence, but of the existenc…"

"For words are but the marks of concepts, and concepts are but the images of things."

"The secret thoughts of a man are free."

"Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion."