Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.

When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.