They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.