Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.

No wind favors he who has no destined port.

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.

There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is no part of the thing nor of the substance; it is an extraneous piece added to the thing, and outside of it.