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

"The passion that above all things makes a man fearful, is the fear of death."

"The desires, and other passions of man, are in themselves no sin. No more are the actions that proceed from those passions, till they know a law that forbids them: which till laws be made they cannot …"

"And consequently, the knowledge of the consequences of words, is called SCIENCE. And though a man should now and then have the good fortune to get any thing by conjecture, without reasoning; yet becau…"

"For by Art is created that great Leviathan called a COMMONWEALTH, or STATE, (in Latin CIVITAS) which is but an Artificial Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Natural, for whose protec…"