Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

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.

For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.

Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion