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.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

A thousand ills require a thousand cures.

What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.

A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.

Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now.

Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.