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

"And consequently, the knowledge of the consequences of words, is called SCIENCE. And though a man should now and then have the good fortune to get any thing by conjecture, without reasoning; yet becau…"

"The greatest part of mankind, though they have the use of reason, yet they do not use it to that end."

"A man's conscience and his judgement are the same thing, and as the judgement, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."

"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…"