To speak impartially, both sayings are very true: that man to man is a kind of God; and that man to man is an arrant wolf. The first is true, if we compare citizens amongst themselves; and the second, if we compare cities.

It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy, as roughly measured by their income.

Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.

Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.