"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues."

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

"For where no covenant hath preceded, there hath no right been transferred, and every man has right to every thing; and consequently, no action can be unjust."

"But a man cannot be said to be in a state of nature, when he is in a city or commonwealth."

"The liberty of a subject lieth therefore only in those things, which in regulating their actions, the sovereign hath praetermitted."