"The light of human minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity."

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

"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."

"But a man cannot be said to be in a state of nature, when he is in a city or commonwealth."

"The science of every man's duty, which is called ethics, is nothing else but the knowledge of what is good and evil in the actions of men."