To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body

The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.

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.