Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; …

And if a man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy, is no other than the ghost of the deceased …

For a mans Conscience, and his Judgement is the same thing; and as the Judgement, so also the Conscience may be erroneous.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic conc…

If you spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.