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.

Trivial losses often prove great gains.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Small minds are captivated by trifles.

This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God.

When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.