Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.
Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Covenants without swords are but words.
Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.