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.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

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

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

Scientia potentia est.

Knowledge is power.

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.