Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

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

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts.

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.