Next To Religion, Let Your Care Be

The Human Understanding Is No Dry Light, But Receives An Infusion From The Will And Affections... What A Man Had Rather Were True He More Readily Believes.

There Is In Human Nature Generally More Of The Fool Than Of The Wise.

Discretion In Speech Is More Than Eloquence.

It Is Madness And A Contradiction To Expect That Things Which Were Never Yet Performed Should Be Effected, Except By Means Hitherto Untried.

The Root Of All Superstition Is That Men Observe When A Thing Hits, But Not When It Misses.