When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and contrary to men's preservation, and the punishment conducing to the preservation of the rest, inasmuch as to punish those that do voluntary hurt, and none else, frameth and maketh men's wills such as men would have them.

Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.

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

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

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

Reason is the Soul of the Law.