"The laws of nature are not properly laws, but conclusions or theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves."

"But a man cannot be said to be in a state of nature, when he is in a city or commonwealth."

"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…"

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

"For to believe that any one should be so fool-hardy, as to put himself into a state of war, without necessity, is to believe that he is a fool."