The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
Whatever begins, also ends.
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
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.