O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
Experience is a safe guide.
For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.
We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.