"The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life."

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

"The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the appetite of the contractors: and therefore the just value is that which they are contented to give."

"But a man cannot be said to be in a state of nature, when he is in a city or commonwealth."

"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present."