Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?

If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.

As, in Sense, that which is really within us, is (as I have said before) only Motion, caused by the action of external objects, but in appearance; to the Sight, Light and Color; to the Ear, Sound; to the Nostril, Odor, &c.

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

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.