Another doctrine repugnant to civil society, is that whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of good and evil. For a man’s conscience...

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only

Words are wise men’s counters, they do but reckon by them: But they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other...

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

Scientia potentia est.Knowledge is power.

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.

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

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

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

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.