For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.

Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.

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

For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?