"The right of all sovereigns is derived from the people, not from God."

"The passion that above all things makes a man fearful, is the fear of death."

"Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition."

"For the laws of nature, as I have shewed, are but theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves."

"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."