The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

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.

For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.