Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.

When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.

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.

Covenants without swords are but words.

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.

When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other either drawn from that by consequence, or not known to be contradictory to it; then (when he is not present to explicate himself better) we are to take the former of his opinions; for that is clearly signified to be his, and directly, whereas the other might proceed from error in the deduction, or ignorance of the repugnancy.