Don't add to your Information from without, nor make more of things than your Senses Report. For Instance: You are told that such a one has spoken ill of you. Right, But that you are really the worse for't, is no part of the News; And if you think so, 'tis your own Addition: Again :I see my Child lye Sick: True; But that he is in Danger is more than I see; And therefore if I conclude so, I must thank my self for't. Thus always stop at the first Representation, and you are safe: Inferences , and Supplemental Fancies, do but make a Man Unhappy. But if you will Reason upon't, (which may not be unserviceable) do it the right way: Doe it like a Man that has look'd through the World, and is no Stranger to any thing that can happen.