True Silence Is The Rest Of The

It Would Go A Long Way To Caution And Direct People In Their Use Of The World That They Would Better Studied And Known In The Creation Of It. For How Could Man Find The Confidence To Abuse It, While They Should See The Great Creator Stare Them In The Face, In All And Every Part Thereof?

Many Able Gardeners And Husbandmen Are Yet Ignorant Of The Reason Of Their Calling; As Most Artificers Are Of The Reason Of Their Own Rules That Govern Their Excellent Workmanship. But A Naturalist And Mechanick Of This Sort Is Master Of The Reason Of Both, And Might Be Of The Practice Too, If His Industry Kept Pace With His Speculation; Which Were Every Commendable; And Without Which He Cannot Be Said To Be A Complete Naturalist Or Mechanick.

It Is A Cruel Folly To Offer Up To Ostentation So Many Lives Of Creatures, As To Make Up The State Of Our Treats.

Love Is The Hardest Lesson In Christianity; But, For That Reason, It Should Be Most Our Care To Learn It.

O Lord, Help Me Not To Despise Or Oppose What I Do Not Understand.