Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.
I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.
The world is governed by opinion.
And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations of their words; which settling of significations, they call definitions, and place them in the beginning of their reckoning.
I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.