This taking of Signs by Experience, is that wherein Men do ordinarily think, the Difference stands between Man and Man in Wisdom, by which they commonly understand a Mans whole Ability or Power cognitive; but this is an Errour: for the Signs are but conjectural; and according as they have often or seldom failed, so their Assurance is more or less; but never full and evident: for though a Man have always seen the Day and Night to follow one another hitherto; yet can he not thence conclude they shall do so, or that they have done so eternally: Experience concludeth nothing universally. If the Signs hit twenty times for one missing, a Man may lay a Wager of Twenty to One of the Event; but may not conclude it for a Truth. But by this it is plain, that they shall conjecture best, that have most Experience, because they have most Signs to conjecture by; which is the Reason old Men are more prudent, that is, conjecture better, caeteris paribus, than young: for, being old, they remember more; and Experience is but remembrance. And men of quick imagination, caeteris paribus, are more prudent than those whose Imaginations are slow: for they observe more in less Time. Prudence is nothing but Conjecture from Experience, or taking of Signs from Experience warily, that is, that the Experiments from which he taketh such Signs be all remembred; for else the Cases are not alike that seem so.