I'm more boring and more conservative.

I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.

M]editation is the life of of most other duties; and the view of heaven is the life of meditation (559).

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best.

Yet I must tell you, that all these graces which are expressed by passions of sorrow, fear, joy, hope, love, are not so certainly to be tried by the passion that is in them, as by the will that is either contained in them, or supposed in them; not as acts of the sensitive, but of the rational appetite (358).

Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having received truths, lays them up in the memory now, consideration is the conveyer of theme from thence to the affections (571).

Meditation puts reason in its authority and preeminence. It helpeth to deliver it form its captivity to the sense, and setteth it again upon the throne of the soul. When reason is silent, it is usually subject; for when it is asleep the senses domineer. . . . Reason is at the strongest when it is most in action. Now, meditation produceth reason into act (573).

Recreations for a student must be especially for the exercise of his body, he having before him such variety of delights for his mind; and they must be as whetting is with the mower, only to be used so far as is necessary to his work.

Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.

We do not think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

We always become what we behold; the presence that we practice matters.

You do not think yourself into a new way of living as much as you live your way into a new way of thinking.