Cure the disease and kill the patient.

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.