Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.