Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.
Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.