"The source of all felicity and unhappiness, is the love of ourselves."

"For by Art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMON-WEALTH, or STATE, (in Latin CIVITAS) which is but an Artificial Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Naturall, for whose prot…"

"Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter."

"Ignorance of the causes, and original constitution of right, equity, law, and justice, disposeth a man to make custom and example the rule of his actions."

"The power of a man, (to take it universally,) is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good."