Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

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

For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.