Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.

For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

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

The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.