I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Book iii. Chap. xi. Of Cripples.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

Book iii. Chap. xi. Of Cripples.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.

Book iii. Chap. xii. Of Physiognomy.

Amongst so many borrowed things, I am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.[779:4]

Book iii. Chap. xii. Of Physiognomy.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

Book iii. Chap. xiii. Of Experience.