It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.

Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.

There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.

Simplicity, very rare in our age.