Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

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

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

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

[Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof if any one thing now were wanting, the effect could not be produced. This concourse of causes, whereof every one is determined to be such as it is by a like concourse of former causes, may well be called (in respect they were all set and ordered by the eternal causes of all things, God Almighty) the decree of God.