"Truth is a good nurse, but a bad physician."

"The honest and straightforward course is, in the long run, the most profitable."

"The master of superstition is the people; and in all superstition wise men follow fools."

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes."

"Certainly, there be, that delight in giddiness; and count it a bondage, to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting."