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

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

To conclude, The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is the pace; Encrease of Science, the way; and the Benefit of man-kind, the end.

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.

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

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.

When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other either drawn from that by consequence, or not known to be contradictory to it; then (when he is not present to explicate himself better) we are to take the former of his opinions; for that is clearly signified to be his, and directly, whereas the other might proceed from error in the deduction, or ignorance of the repugnancy.