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

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

There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.