The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.

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

For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.