Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

Good science requires distinguishing between "felt knowledge" and knowledge arising out of testable observations. "I am sure" is a mental sensation, not a testable conclusion. Put hunches, gut feelings, and intuitions into the suggestion box. Let empiric methods shake out the good from bad suggestions.

Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language and tools of probabilities. We have methods for analyzing and ranking opinion according to their likelihood of correctness. That is enough.