"For what is there in the world that is not subject to change?"

"The imagination is nothing but decaying sense."

"Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition."

"Whatsoever there is of motion, is caused by some other motion, and is therefore dependent on some other cause, and so on, in an infinite series, without any first cause; or else, if there be a first c…"

"The skill of making and maintaining Commonwealths, consisteth in certain rules, as doth arithmetic and geometry; not (as tennis-play) on practice only: which rules, neither poor men have the leisure, …"