"The imagination is nothing but decaying sense."

"And therefore, as long as a man is in the condition of mere nature, (which is a condition of war,) as long as he has not bound himself by covenant to the contrary, every man has a right to every thing…"

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

"For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves."

"The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."