"The right of nature, which writers commonly call Jus Naturale, is the liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his ow…"

"Riches, knowledge, and honour are but several sorts of power."

"In the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."

"Ignorance of causes makes men feareful of any power invisible."

"For seeing life is but a motion of limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all automata (engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a wa…"