The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance]do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they atheists? No. For though by ignorance of the consequence they said that which was equivalent to atheism, yet in their hearts they thought God a substanceSo that this atheism by consequence is a very easy thing to be fallen into, even by the most godly men of the church.

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

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 first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.