It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.

We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.