The law is the public conscience.
Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Life is nasty, brutish, and short
Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.