The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies. - Robert Burton

Melancholy and despair, though often, do not always concur; there is much difference: melancholy fears without a cause, this upon great occasion; melancholy is caused by fear and grief, but this torment procures them and all extremity of bitterness.

See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.

I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people; they go commonly together.