"Ignorance of causes makes men feareful of any power invisible."

"Whatsoever there is of motion, is caused by some other motion, and is therefore dependent on some other cause, and so on, in an infinite series, without any first cause; or else, if there be a first c…"

"For words are but the marks of concepts, and concepts are but the images of things."

"For whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth good: and the object of his hate and aversion, evil; and of his contempt, vile and inconsiderable…"

"In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by se…"