The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.

And therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up for right Reason, the Reason of some Arbitrator, or Judge, to whose sentence, they will both stand, or their controversy must either come to blows, or be undecided, for want of a right Reason constituted by Nature; so is it also in all debates of what kind soever.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.