“The earth was made so various, that the mind
Of desultory man, studious of change
And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.”

“Please open your mind to the possibility that I might be an honest man who was himself deceived.”

“Man thinks 'cause he rules the earth, he can do with it as he please. And if things don't change soon, he will.”

“The Creator made women to please the eye and trouble the mind.”

“It pleased the great Creator of the world to make three sorts of living creatures. Angels he made pure spirits, without flesh, and therefore he made them only for heaven and not to dwell on earth. Beasts were made flesh, without immortal souls, and therefore they were made only for the earth and not for heaven: Man is of a middle nature between both, as partaking of both flesh and spirit, so is he made for earth, but as his passage or way to heaven, and not that this should be his home or happiness. The blessed state that man was made for was to behold the glorious majesty of the Lord and to praise him among his holy angels; and to love him, and to be filled with his love forever.”

“Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.”

“Apotheosis is not
The origin of the major man. He comes,

p>Compact in invincible foils, from reason,
Lighted at midnight by the studious eye,
Swaddled in revery, the object ofThe hum of thoughts evaded in the mind...”

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.”

“Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.”

“As a believer is changed, receiving a glorified body, so similarly, the earth is changed into a new earth, unstained by sin.”