Fortune Is Like The Market,

Truth Is So Hard To Tell, It Sometimes Needs Fiction To Make It Plausible.

I Do Not Believe That Any Man Fears To Be Dead, But Only The Stroke Of Death.

But Men Must Know, That In This Theatre Of Man's Life It Is Reserved Only For God And Angels To Be Lookers On.

Truth May Perhaps Come To The Price Of A Pearl, That Showeth Best By Day; But It Will Not Rise To The Price Of A Diamond Or Carbuncle, That Showeth Best In Varied Lights. A Mixture Of A Lie Doth Ever Add Pleasure. Doth Any Man Doubt That, If There Were Taken Out Of Men's Minds Vain Opinions, Flattering Hopes, False Valuations, Imaginations As One Would, And The Like, But It Would Leave The Minds Of A Number Of Men Poor Shrunken Things, Full Of Melancholy And Indisposition, And Unpleasing To Themselves?

Philosophy When Superficially Studied, Excites Doubt, When Thoroughly Explored, It Dispels It.