Date: 1588

"I laugh not at another's loss, / Nor grudge not at another's gain; / No worldly waves my mind can toss; / I brook that is another's bane."

— Dyer, Sir Edward (1543-1607)

Date: 1596

"Vnderstanding is that facultie in the soale whereby we vse reason: and it is the more principall part seruing to rule and order the whole man, and therefore it is placed in the soule to be as the wagginer in the waggin."

— Perkins, William (1558-1602)

Date: 1598

"Never / a man's thought in the world keeps the roadway better / than thine"

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1600

"Your mind is tossing on the ocean"

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1600

"Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy"

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: c. 1603

"In fact, had not political conditions and prospects put an end to these mental voyages, many another coast of error would have been visited by those mariners."

— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)