What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?

The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions of magnitude, length, breadth and depth. Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere

He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind;

A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous

It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end

Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

It is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire

A great leap in the dark

God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short

Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.

Homo homini lupus

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion

Leisure is the mother of Philosophy

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry… no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short

The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone

For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other men at a distance.

Knowledge is power

Hell is truth seen too late.