"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."

"No man can have in his mind a conception of the future, for the future is not yet."

"The greatest good, is the preservation of life."

"As if it were not enough to have been once in a war, but must also be perpetually in a posture of war."

"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."