No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.