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

Covenants without swords are but words.

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.

Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say, into Eternal life, that is to say, to Remission of Sin. For as Eternal life was lost by the committing, so it is recovered by the remitting of men's sins.

Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.

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

A great leap in the dark