[Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof if any one thing now were wanting, the effect could not be produced. This concourse of causes, whereof every one is determined to be such as it is by a like concourse of former causes, may well be called (in respect they were all set and ordered by the eternal causes of all things, God Almighty) the decree of God.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.

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.

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

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

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.