In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.

Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.

Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

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.

No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.