[20]: «Si l'on veut respecter l'antiquité, c'est l'âge présent qui est le plus vieux.»
[21]: To say he hath spoken to him in a dream is no more than to say he dreamed that God spoke to him. To say he hath seen a vision or heard a voice, is to say that he has dreamed between sleeping and waking. To say he speaks by supernatural inspiration, is to say he finds an ardent desire to speak or some strong opinion of himself for which he cannot alledge no natural and sufficient reason.
[22]: From the principal parts of nature, reason and passion, have proceeded two kinds of learning, mathematical and dogmatical. The former is free from controversy and dispute, because it consisteth in comparing figure and motion only, in which things truth and the interest of men oppose not each other. But in the other there is nothing undisputable, because it compares men and meddles with their right and profit.
[23]: Ses principaux ouvrages ont été écrits entre 1646 et 1655.
[24]: Nemo dat nisi respiciens ad bonum sibi.
Amicitiæ bonæ, nempe utiles. Nam amicitiæ cùm ad multa alia, tum ad præsidium conferunt.
Sapientia utile. Nam præsidium in se habet nonnullum. Appetibile est per se, id est jucundum. Item pulchrum, quia acquisitio difficilis.
Non enim qui sapiens est, ut dixere stoici, dives est, sed contra qui dives est sapiens est dicendus.
Ignoscere veniam petenti pulchrum. Nam indicium fiduciæ sui.
Imitatio jucundum, revocat enim præterita. Præterita autem si bona fuerint, jucunda sunt repræsentata, quia bona. Si mala, quia præterita. Jucunda igitur musica, pictura, poesis.