What the Gods want happens soon

A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind. [Lat., Medicus nihil aliud est quam animi consolatio.]

Alas! worse every day! this colony grows backward like the tail of a calf. [Lat., Heu quotidie pejus! haec colonia retroversus crescit tanquam coda vituli.]

Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality...

Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

I was to learn later that in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.