Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?