Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

A thousand approaches lie open to death.