Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
Light is but the shadow of God.
Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.
I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.
Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.