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

The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts.

Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

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.

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.