Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.