No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.

So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.