"Riches, knowledge, and honour are but several sorts of power."

"For he that is to govern a whole nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but mankind."

"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…"

"For there is no such Finis Ultimus, (utmost aim,) nor Summum Bonum, (greatest good,) as is spoken of in the books of the old moral philosophers. Nor can a man any more live, whose desires are at an en…"

"The first and fundamental law of nature is, to seek peace, and follow it."