The past is certain, the future obscure.
All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.
Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.
Conceal thy domestic ills.
I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.
We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air