The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.

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?

Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

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

And therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up for right Reason, the Reason of some Arbitrator, or Judge, to whose sentence, they will both stand, or their controversy must either come to blows, or be undecided, for want of a right Reason constituted by Nature; so is it also in all debates of what kind soever.