As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.

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.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

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.

Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

The reputation of power IS power.