Oblivion is not to be hired.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

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.

Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.

For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.

Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless to animal life in such a way that it is impossible to determine the exact line ure hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the Art of God.

Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist.