"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other."

"The right of all sovereigns is derived from the people, not from God."

"For seeing that the whole life of man is but a motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."

"The universe is corporeal; all that is real is material, and what is not material is not real."

"For whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth good: and the object of his hate and aversion, evil; and of his contempt, vile and inconsiderable…"