Amid The Sufferings Of Life On Earth,

The Best Plan Is To Profit By The Folly Of Others.

In These Matters The Only Certainty Is That Nothing Is Certain.

Such Is The Audacity Of Man, That He Hath Learned To Counterfeit Nature, Yea, And Is So Bold As To Challenge Her In Her Work.

It Is This Earth That, Like A Kind Mother, Receives Us At Our Birth, And Sustains Us When Born; It Is This Alone, Of All The Elements Around Us, That Is Never Found An Enemy Of Man.

We Ought To Be Guarded Against Every Appearance Of Envy, As A Passion That Always Implies Inferiority Wherever It Resides.