It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.

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.

The reputation of power IS power.

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.

Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry... no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.