Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.