Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.
It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.