Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.
In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.
Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.
It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.