"For if we could not see the motions of the stars, we should not know that there were any stars."

"For it is with the mind as with the body: when it is at ease, it is apt to take delight in any new object, and to be pleased with it, if it be not too difficult; but if it be troubled, it is apt to be…"

"For seeing that the whole life of man is but a motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."

"During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called War; and such a war, as is of every man, against every man."

"The secret thoughts of a man are free."