The Subtlety Of Nature Is Greater Many

Nature Is Often Hidden, Sometimes Overcome, Seldom Extinguished.

The Study Of Nature With A View To Works Is Engaged In By The Mechanic, The Mathematician, The Physician, The Alchemist, And The Magician; But By All As Things Now Are With Slight Endeavour And Scanty Success.

Croesus Said To Cambyses; That Peace Was Better Than War; Because In Peace The Sons Did Bury Their Fathers, But In Wars The Fathers Did Bury Their Sons.

But We May Go Further, And Affirm Most Truly, That It Is A Mere And Miserable Solitude To Want True Friends; Without Which The World Is But A Wilderness.

The Subtlety Of Nature Is Greater Many Times Over Than The Subtlety Of The Senses And Understanding.