How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.

As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.