To say that God is an incorporeal substance, is to say in effect there is no God at all. What alleges he against it, but the School-divinity which I have already answered? Scripture he can bring none, because the word incorporeal is not found in Scripture.

Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

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

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.