"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all the…"

"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."

"It is not possible to love and to be wise."

"He that cannot dissemble, cannot reign."

"For the thereof, I cannot but say, that I found myself in a condition, which in truth I am not able to express, but by a kind of similitude. I was a man of a broken fortune, and of a broken health, an…"