Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion

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

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

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body

No arts no letters no society and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short