Nature And Wisdom Never Are At Strife.

It Is No Great Wonder If In Long Process Of Time, While Fortune Takes Her Course Hither And Thither, Numerous Coincidences Should Spontaneously Occur. If The Number And Variety Of Subjects To Be Wrought Upon Be Infinite, It Is All The More Easy For Fortune, With Such An Abundance Of Material, To Effect This Similarity Of Results.

Blinded As They Are To Their True Character By Self-love, Every Man Is His Own First And Chiefest Flatterer, Prepared, Therefore, To Welcome The Flatterer From The Outside, Who Only Comes Confirming The Verdict Of The Flatterer Within.

Fate, However, Is To All Appearance More Unavoidable Than Unexpected.

No Man Ever Wetted Clay And Then Left It, As If There Would Be Bricks By Chance And Fortune.

A Prating Barber Asked Archelaus How He Would Be Trimmed. He Answered, "in Silence."