When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.