"Leisure is the mother of Philosophy."

"The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof."

"The skill of making and maintaining Commonwealths, consisteth in certain rules, as doth arithmetic and geometry; not (as tennis-play) on practice only: which rules, neither poor men have the leisure, …"

"No man can have a right to anything, unless he has a power to defend it."

"For what is there in the world, that is not obnoxious to the change of time, and the violence of men?"