The reputation of power IS power.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

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.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

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