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

For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself

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.

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.

Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.