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.

When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.

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

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

The reputation of power IS power.

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.