Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

Corporations are "worms in the body politic"

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

To say that God is an incorporeal substance, is to say in effect there is no God at all. What alleges he against it, but the School-divinity which I have already answered? Scripture he can bring none, because the word incorporeal is not found in Scripture.

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.