A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

I mean by the universe, the aggregate of all things that have being in themselves; and so do all men else. And because God has a being, it follows that he is either the whole universe, or part of it. Nor does his Lordship go about to disprove it, but only seems to wonder at it.

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 world is governed by opinion.

The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.