It is we that are blind, not fortune.
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.
I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.
He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
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.