"For to believe that any one should be so fool-hardy, as to put himself into a state of war, without necessity, is to believe that he is a fool."

"The passions that incline men to peace, are fear of death; desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living; and a hope by their industry to obtain them."

"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…"

"Leisure is the mother of Philosophy."

"The value of a man, is as of all other things, his price; that is, so much as would be given for the use of his power."