Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

To speak impartially, both sayings are very true: that man to man is a kind of God; and that man to man is an arrant wolf. The first is true, if we compare citizens amongst themselves; and the second, if we compare cities.

The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and Touch; or mediately, as in Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling: which pressure, by the mediation of Nerves, and other strings, and membranes of the body, continued inwards to the Brain, and Heart, causeth there a resistance, or counter- pressure, or endeavor of the heart, to deliver it self: which endeavor because Outward, seemeth to be some matter without.

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

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.