The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts.

The Pacts and Covenants, by which the parts of this Body Politique were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that Fiat, or the Let us make man, pronounced by God in the Creation.

Covenants without swords are but words.

That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.