"Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools."

"And consequently, the knowledge of the consequences of words, is called SCIENCE. And though a man should now and then have the good fortune to get any thing by conjecture, without reasoning; yet becau…"

"For the nature of man is such, that he is always desirous of new things, and of change; and therefore, if there be no common power to keep him in awe, he will be continually in a state of war."

"The passion of 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."

"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."