A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
The reputation of power IS power.
As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.
The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.