"Ignorance of causes makes men feareful of any power invisible."

"For the laws of nature are not properly laws, but certain dictates of reason."

"The science of every man's duty, which is called ethics, is nothing else but the knowledge of what is good and evil in the actions of men."

"For the nature of man is such, that if they be not restrained by fear of punishment, they will choose to do that which is most for their own advantage."

"The skill of making and maintaining Commonwealths, consisteth in certain rules, as doth arithmetic and geometry; not (as tennis-play) on practice only: which rules, neither poor men have the leisure, …"