For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

The world is governed by opinion.

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.