Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Certainly it is a heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind to move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.

Of great riches there is no real use, except in the distribution; the rest is but conceit

Poesy was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.