"The source of all felicity and unhappiness, is the love of ourselves."

"A man's conscience and his judgement are the same thing, and as the judgement, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."

"The liberty of a subject lieth therefore only in those things, which in regulating their actions, the sovereign hath praetermitted."

"And therefore, what is good for one, is not good for all."

"For whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth good: and the object of his hate and aversion, evil; and of his contempt, vile and inconsiderable…"