All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and Touch; or mediately, as in Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling: which pressure, by the mediation of Nerves, and other strings, and membranes of the body, continued inwards to the Brain, and Heart, causeth there a resistance, or counter- pressure, or endeavor of the heart, to deliver it self: which endeavor because Outward, seemeth to be some matter without.

As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?

Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.

Love is a person's idea about his/her needs in other person what you are attracted to.