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

Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and contrary to men's preservation, and the punishment conducing to the preservation of the rest, inasmuch as to punish those that do voluntary hurt, and none else, frameth and maketh men's wills such as men would have them.

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

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!

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.

No arts, no letters - no society.