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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by ...  
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judg...  
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". ...  
As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in ...  
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.  
Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, ...  
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in...  
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.   Politics
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.  
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.  
Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden c...  
Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.  
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual ...  
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.  
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.  
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all m...  
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact u...  
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many ot...  
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for pea...  
The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can gr...  
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of ...  
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the d...  
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, bu...  
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own pow...  
The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for ...  
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.  
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tr...  
Words are the money of fools.  
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they ...