Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
Breed is stronger than pasture.
Education is an asset no man can take away.
A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.