There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it....It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.