"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…"

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."

"Conquest, acquisition of peoples and territory through force, followed by subjugation, confers a legal right and title."

"The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds."

"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."