"For the laws of nature are not properly laws, but certain dictates of reason."

"For by Art is created that great Leviathan called a COMMONWEALTH, or STATE, (in Latin CIVITAS) which is but an Artificial Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Natural, for whose protec…"

"For it is not the bare words, but the scope of the speaker, that gives the words their true signification."

"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."

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