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

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin.... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin; but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.