Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

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

A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

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

He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.