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

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

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

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?

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

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?

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

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".

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

War consisteth not in battle only,or the act of fighting;but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known

Give an inch, he'll take an ell.

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body

It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.

Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.

In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.

It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.

I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.

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

Liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion