The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and Touch; or mediately, as in Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling: which pressure, by the mediation of Nerves, and other strings, and membranes of the body, continued inwards to the Brain, and Heart, causeth there a resistance, or counter- pressure, or endeavor of the heart, to deliver it self: which endeavor because Outward, seemeth to be some matter without.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

And therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up for right Reason, the Reason of some Arbitrator, or Judge, to whose sentence, they will both stand, or their controversy must either come to blows, or be undecided, for want of a right Reason constituted by Nature; so is it also in all debates of what kind soever.

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.