...in statu naturae Mensuram juris esse Utilitatem.

The passion of laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmities of others, or with our own formerly...

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

Give an inch, he'll take an ell.

For such Truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.

But if it bee well considered, The praise of Ancient Authors, proceeds not from the reverence of the Dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the Living.

For it is not the bare Words, but the Scope of the writer that giveth true light, by which any writing is to bee interpreted; and they that insist upon single Texts, without considering the main Designe, can derive no thing from them clearly; but rather by casting atomes of Scripture, as dust before mens eyes, make everything more obscure than it is; an ordinary artifice of those who seek not the truth, but their own advantage.

Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?

Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.

And hereby it comes to passe, that Intemperance, is naturally punished with Diseases; Rashness, with Mischance; Injustice; with Violence of Enemies; Pride, with Ruine; Cowardice, with Oppression; Negligent government of Princes, with Rebellion; and Rebellion with Slaughter.