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

"The greatest part of mankind, though they have the use of reason, yet they do not use it to that end."

"For there is no conception in a man's mind, which hath not at first, totally, or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense."

"For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever,…"

"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…"