We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.

This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."