Words are the money of fools.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.

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

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

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

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.

Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter.

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.

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.