"He that knows the world, will not be too fastidious, or censorious of the manners of others."

"All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it."

"Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fan…"

"He that hath ears to hear, let him hear."

"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator."