That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.

Prayer is that which enables the soul to realize its divinity. Through prayer human beings worship absolute truth, and seek an eternal reward. Prayer is the foundation-stone of religion; and religion is the means by which the soul is purified of all that pollutes it. Prayer is the worship of the first cause of all things, the supreme ruler of all the world, the source of all strength. Prayer is the adoration of the one whose being is necessary.

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

Mountains have been formed by one [or other] of the causes of the formation of stone, most probably from agglutinative clay which slowly dried and petrified during ages of which we have no record. It seems likely that this habitable world was in former days uninhabitable and, indeed, submerged beneath the ocean. Then, becoming exposed little by little, it petrified in the course of ages.

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.