Covenants without swords are but words.

For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.