Nature Has Given Man No Better Thing

There Is An Herb Named In Latine Convolvulus (i.e. With Wind), Growing Among Shrubs And Bushes, With Carrieth A Flower Not Unlike To This Lilly, Save That It Yeeldeth No Smell Nor Hath Those Chives Within; For Whitenesse They Resemble One Another Very Much, As If Nature In Making This Floure Were A Learning And Trying Her Skill How To Frame The Lilly Indeed.

The Only Certainty Is Uncertainty

The Leading Distinction In Magnets Is The Sex, Male And Female, And The Next Great Difference In Them Is The Colour. Those Of Magnesia, Bordering On Macedonia, Are Of A Reddish Black; Those Of Breotia Are More Red Than Black; And The Kind That Is Found In Troas Is Black, Of The Female Sex, And Consequently Destitute Of Attractive Power.

This Only Is Certain, That There Is Nothing Certain.

In Time Of Sickness The Soul Collects Itself Anew.