The reputation of power IS power.

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.

Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.

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

The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects; leavingthe world, and the Philosophy thereof, to the disputation of men, for the exercising of their natural Reason.

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.