"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 …"

"Covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all."

"The secret thoughts of a man are free."

"Ignorance of causes makes men feareful of any power invisible."

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