Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

The reputation of power IS power.

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else he cannot be obeyed. But I never said that a king, and every one of his persons, are the same substance.

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

The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects; leavingthe world, and the Philosophy thereof, to the disputation of men, for the exercising of their natural Reason.

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