If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.

Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.