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.

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

Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.

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.

The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby men register their Thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutuall utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither Commonwealth, nor Society, nor Contract, nor Peace, no more than amongst Lyons, Bears, and Wolves.

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.