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.

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.

What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?

To conclude, The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is the pace; Encrease of Science, the way; and the Benefit of man-kind, the end.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.