“The remedy is worse than the disease.”

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

“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.”

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

“It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives.”

“The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.”

“I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.”