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" The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. "

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" Words are the money of fools. "

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

" He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. "

" No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. "

" A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. "

" Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. "

" Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome. "

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

" They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion. "

" Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. "

" 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. "

" Curiosity is the lust of the mind. "

" When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death. "

" Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. "

" A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him. "

" Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation. "

" During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. "

" Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. "

" The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. "

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

" Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. "

" Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. "

" The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. "

" The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them. "

" Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. "

" War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. "

" 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. "

" The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns. "

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

" The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. "