The passion of laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising…

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 …

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

...in statu naturae Mensuram juris esse Utilitatem.

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

Give an inch, he'll take an ell.

which is but an Artificiall Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Naturall, for whose protection and defence it was intended