If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.

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

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects; leavingthe world, and the Philosophy thereof, to the disputation of men, for the exercising of their natural Reason.

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.