"The Passions that most of all cause the difference of wit, are principally, the more or less constant adherence to their purpose; of which there is a degree more than that which in the former chapter …"

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

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

"The right of nature, which writers commonly call Jus Naturale, is the liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his ow…"

"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present."