Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture.

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

Hell is truth seen too late.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of 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.

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

It is Pointless Trying to Impress Someone Who Doesn’t Care about You

He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.

What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal

I don't think any government has the means to protect us from the world reality.

And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?

Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks?

We respond to healing grace by giving it away.

I knew what I did and I knew how I did it, but I didn't know why.