For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.

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

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.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

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