"The desires, and other passions of man, are in themselves no sin. No more are the actions that proceed from those passions, till they know a law that forbids them."

"The power of a man, (to take it universally,) is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good."

"When a man's discourse beginneth not with definitions, it is a sign that he gropes in the dark."

"A free man is he that... is not hindered to do what he has the will to do."

"For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever,…"