To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom. - Thomas Traherne

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope of Heaven, that is more absurdly barbarous than the Christian World. They that go naked and drink water and live upon roots are like Adam, or Angels in comparison of us.

The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.