"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…"

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

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

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

"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…"

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

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

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

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