For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself

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

There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else he cannot be obeyed. But I never said that a king, and every one of his persons, are the same substance.

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.

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy, as roughly measured by their income.