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

That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.

It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.

Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

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

The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.