That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.