No arts, no letters - no society.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.

I mean by the universe, the aggregate of all things that have being in themselves; and so do all men else. And because God has a being, it follows that he is either the whole universe, or part of it. Nor does his Lordship go about to disprove it, but only seems to wonder at it.

Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry... no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.