It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.
A good conscience is a continual feast.
Opportunity makes a thief.
They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.
Time is the author of authors.
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.