Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

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 these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.