To Be Nameless In Worthy Deeds Exceeds

I Have Often Admired The Mystical Way Of Pythagoras, And The Secret Magick Of Numbers.

That Miracles Have Been, I Do Believe; That They May Yet Be Wrought By The Living, I Do Not Deny: But Have No Confidence In Those Which Are Fathered On The Dead.

Festination May Prove Precipitation; Deliberating Delay May Be Wise Cunctation.

A Little Water Makes A Sea, A Small Puff Of Wind A Tempest.

Miserable Men Commiserate Not Themselves; Bowelless Unto Others, And Merciless Unto Their Own Bowels.