Date: 1596
"In this respect [conscience] may fitly be compared to a notarie, or a register that hath alwaies the penne in his hand, to note and record whatsoeuer is saide or done: who also because he keepes the rolles and records of the court, can tell what hath bin said and done many hundred yeares past."
preview | full record— Perkins, William (1558-1602)
Date: 1599
"This Scripture [Proverbs 18:14] is not only worthie to be graven in steele with the pen of an Adamant, and to be written in letters of gold: but also to bee laid up and registred by the finger of Gods spirit in the tables of our hearts."
preview | full record— Greenham, Richard (e. 1540s-1594)
Date: 1599
"have wee not a great advantage, that have within our selves while wee live here, a Count-booke and Inventorie of all the crimes that wee shall be accused of, either at the houre of our death, or at the Great day of Judgement"
preview | full record— King James I (1566-1625)
Date: c. 1603
"On waxen tablets you cannot write anything new until you rub out the old. With the mind it is not so; there you cannot rub out the old till you have written in the new."
preview | full record— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)