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

"For it is not the bare words, but the scope of the speaker, that giveth the true interpretation of a law."

"The greatest good is that which is most pleasant to us."

"For there is no conception in a man's mind, which hath not at first, totally, or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense."

"Covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all."