To be content with death may be better than to desire it.

I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.

Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.

There are wonders in true affection. It is a body of enigmas, mysteries, and riddles, wherein two so become one, as they both become two.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.