Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.