"The Passions that most of all cause the difference of wit, are principally, the more or less constant adherence to their purpose; of which there is a degree more than that which in the former chapter …"

"A man's conscience and his judgement are the same thing, and as the judgement, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."

"For the laws of nature, as I have shewed, are but theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves."

"For there is no such Finis Ultimus (utmost aim) nor Summum Bonum (greatest good) as is spoken of in the books of the old moral philosophers."

"The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof."