No arts, no letters - no society.

If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.

Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

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

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.