I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.

Do what is right, though the world may perish.

Reason can never prove the existence of God.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.