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

"The end of obedience is protection."

"For every man, that is not an idiot, knoweth that there is a God; yet few there be that think there is but one, or that he is eternal, or incomprehensible, or that he governs the world; but they imagi…"

"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…"

"For if we could not see the motions of the stars, we should not know that there were any stars."