When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

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

Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.

It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.

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?