"For what is there in the world, that is not obnoxious to the change of time, and the violence of men?"

"For words are but the marks of concepts, and concepts are but the images of things."

"The greatest part of mankind, in their ordinary life, are led by their senses and appetites, and consequently, by the desire of honour, riches, and pleasure; as also by the fear of pain, poverty, and …"

"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…"

"The desires, and other passions of man, are in themselves no sin. No more are the actions that proceed from those passions, till they know a law that forbids them: which till laws be made they cannot …"