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

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.

By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently.

Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.