For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

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

To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.

The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby men register their Thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutuall utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither Commonwealth, nor Society, nor Contract, nor Peace, no more than amongst Lyons, Bears, and Wolves.

Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.

Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.

Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need to remember what every name he uses stands for; and to place it accordingly; or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime-twigs; the more he struggles, the more belimed.