"I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it. For in a way b…"

"...in statu naturae Mensuram juris esse Utilitatem."

"For he that hath strength enough to protect all, wants not sufficiency to oppresse all."

"Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark."

"No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man."

"The passion of laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eminency in ourselv…"

"And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in…"

"To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should…"

"Give an inch, he'll take an ell."

"He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which thoug…"