A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits.

Retain the wind by compressing the belly.

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.

As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man, according to the Delphic Oracle. Whenever he tried to do anything in public he had to break off amid general laughter. While he was philosophizing about clouds and ideas, measuring a flea's foot and marveling at a midge's humming, he learned nothing about the affairs of ordinary life.

Bidden or unbidden, God is present.