Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.