Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body

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

Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.

When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other either drawn from that by consequence, or not known to be contradictory to it; then (when he is not present to explicate himself better) we are to take the former of his opinions; for that is clearly signified to be his, and directly, whereas the other might proceed from error in the deduction, or ignorance of the repugnancy.

A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death.

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.