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

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

[Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof if any one thing now were wanting, the effect could not be produced. This concourse of causes, whereof every one is determined to be such as it is by a like concourse of former causes, may well be called (in respect they were all set and ordered by the eternal causes of all things, God Almighty) the decree of God.

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

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.