He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
Patience and time conquer all things.
I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.