The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the appetite of the contractors, and therefore the just value is that which they be contented to give.

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.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone.""There is when your only reason is the being, not the someone.

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

Dream of dreamers!

What this letter does is bring us into an atmosphere in which the institution could only wilt and die. The Letter to Philemon

There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?

Most people who are HIV positive are on drugs and that gets their viral load so low that it's harder to transmit it. Most new infections come from people who don't know they're infected.

God put many animals here [on Earth] for pets, playthings and companions for us and our children, and we're still going to enjoy them [in Heaven].

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?