A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.
The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.
The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
Nature has no outline. Imagination has.
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.