For Appetite with an opinion of attaining, is called HOPE

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 …

...in statu naturae Mensuram juris esse Utilitatem.

Give an inch, he'll take an ell.

"For he that hath strength enough to protect all, wants not sufficiency to oppresse all."

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

by Art is created that great Leviathan called a Common-Wealth or State