For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.

I mean by the universe, the aggregate of all things that have being in themselves; and so do all men else. And because God has a being, it follows that he is either the whole universe, or part of it. Nor does his Lordship go about to disprove it, but only seems to wonder at it.

There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

Corporations are "worms in the body politic"