Of all Discourse, governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End, either by attaining, or by giving over. - Thomas Hobbes

As also the great number of Corporations; which are as it were many lesser Common-wealths in the bowels of a greater, like wormes in the entrayles of a natural man.

I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it. For in a way beset with those that contend, on one side for too great Liberty, and on the other side for too much Authority, 'tis hard to passe between the points of both unwounded.

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.