A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body

Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.

Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.