Therefore To The Same Natural

If You Are Affronted It Is Better To Pass It By In Silence, Or With A Jest, Though With Some Dishonor, Than To Endeavor Revenge. If You Can Keep Reason Above Passion, That And Watchfulness Will Be Your Best Defenders.

Truth Is Ever To Be Found In The Simplicity, And Not In The Multiplicity And Confusion Of Things.

Where Both Are Friends, It Is Right To Prefer Truth.

[1.] And First I Suppose That There Is Diffused Through All Places An Aethereal Substance Capable Of Contraction & Dilatation, Strongly Elastick, & In A Word, Much Like Air In All Respects, But Far More Subtile. 2. I Suppose This Aether Pervades All Gross Bodies, But Yet So As To Stand Rarer In Their Pores Then In Free Spaces, & So Much Ye Rarer As Their Pores Are Less ... 3. I Suppose Ye Rarer Aether Within Bodies & Ye Denser Without Them, Not To Be Terminated In A Mathematical Superficies, But To Grow Gradually Into One Another.

If The Ancient Churches, In Debating And Deciding The Greatest Mysteries Of Religion, Knew Nothing Of These Two Texts, I Understand Not Why We Should Be So Fond Of Them Now The Debate Is Over.