Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have.

God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.

If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.

It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.