A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.

For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.

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

For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.