The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Reason is the Soul of the Law.

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently.

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.