He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.

Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.

Love, and a cough, are not concealed.

A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.

Do not believe hastily.

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.