"For by Art is created that great Leviathan called a COMMONWEALTH, or STATE, (in Latin CIVITAS) which is but an Artificial Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Natural, for whose protec…"

"For it is not the bare receiving of a man's message, that makes him an ambassador, but the accepting of his person."

"Leisure is the mother of Philosophy."

"And because the condition of man, (as hath been declared in the precedent chapter) is a condition of war of every one against every one; in which case every one is governed by his own reason; and ther…"

"The light of human minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity."