| Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. |
| Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools. |
| The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only. |
| Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. |
| Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome. |
| Leisure is the mother of philosophy. |
| Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope the same, without such opinion, despair. |
