The Only Certainty Is Uncertainty

The Desire To Know A Thing Is Heightened By Its Gratification Being Deferred.

It Is This Earth That, Like A Kind Mother, Receives Us At Our Birth, And Sustains Us When Born; It Is This Alone, Of All The Elements Around Us, That Is Never Found An Enemy Of Man.

As For The Garden Of Mint, The Very Smell Of It Alone Recovers And Refreshes Our Spirits, As The Taste Stirs Up Our Appetite For Meat.

Many Other Means There Be, That Promise The Foreknowledge Of Things To Come: Besides The Raising Up And Conjuring Of Ghosts Departed, The Conference Also With Familiars And Spirits Infernal. And All These Were Found Out In Our Days, To Be No Better Than Vanities And False Illusions.

It Has Been Observed That The Height Of A Man From The Crown Of The Head To The Sole Of The Foot Is Equal To The Distance Between The Tips Of The Middle Fingers Of The Two Hands When Extended In A Straight Line.