Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

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

The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.

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

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

Nature (the Art whereby God hath made and governs the World) is by the Art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an Artificial Animal. For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?

For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.