Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

Nothing happens until something moves.

The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity.

Whatever any one does or says, I must be good.