The coward only threatens when he is safe.

Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.

If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.

These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Sceptics are yet the most credulous.

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.