"The power of a man, (to take it universally,) is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good."

"The desires, and other passions of man, are in themselves no sin. No more are the actions that proceed from those passions, till they know a law that forbids them."

"For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever,…"

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

"The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."