Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.
Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.