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

The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

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

A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

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.