"Whatsoever there is of motion, is caused by some other motion, and is therefore dependent on some other cause, and so on, in an infinite series, without any first cause; or else, if there be a first c…"

"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…"

"Power and wealth, and honour, are but means to obtain power and wealth and honour."

"No man can have a right to anything, unless he has a power to defend it."

"For the source of all superstition is the fear of things invisible."