Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

To say that God is an incorporeal substance, is to say in effect there is no God at all. What alleges he against it, but the School-divinity which I have already answered? Scripture he can bring none, because the word incorporeal is not found in Scripture.

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.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.