"For seeing life is but a motion of limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all automata (engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a wa…"

"Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion."

"The greatest part of mankind, though they have the use of reason, yet they do not use it to that end."

"The power of the sovereign is indivisible; and cannot be shared between different bodies or persons."

"The greatest of human powers, is that which is compounded of the powers of most men, united by consent, in one person, natural, or civil, that has the use of all their powers depending on his will; su…"