To Conclude, The Light Of

There Is No Such Thing As Perpetual Tranquility Of Mind While We Live Here.

They That Approve A Private Opinion, Call It Opinion; But They That Dislike It, Heresy; And Yet Heresy Signifies No More Than Private Opinion.

The Power Of A Man Is His Present Means To Obtain Some Future Apparent Good.

To Be Seduced By Orators, As A Monarch By Flatterers.

And In These Four Things, Opinion Of Ghosts , Ignorance Of Second Causes, Devotion Towards What Men Fear , And Taking Of Things Casual For Prognostics , Consisteth The Natural Seed Of Religion ; Which By Reason Of The Different Fancies, Judgments And Passions Of Several Men, Has Grown Up Into Ceremonies So Different, That Those Which Are Used By One Man, Are For The Most Part Ridiculous To Another.