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

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and not by their mediocrity, nor by their being commended. For several men praise several customs, and, contrarily, what one calls vice, another calls virtue, as their present affections lead them.

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

But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance]do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they atheists? No. For though by ignorance of the consequence they said that which was equivalent to atheism, yet in their hearts they thought God a substanceSo that this atheism by consequence is a very easy thing to be fallen into, even by the most godly men of the church.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.