Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.

Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

Come home to men's business and bosoms.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives