Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.
I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
Unjust rule does not last forever.
The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.