"The right of nature ... 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 own life; and consequently, of doing any …"

"For it is not the bare receiving of a man's message, that makes him an ambassador, but the accepting of his person."

"The right of nature... 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 own life."

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

"When a man's discourse beginneth not with definitions, it is a sign that he gropes in the dark."