The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

All colours will agree in the dark.