The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.

Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Because of Diamond, I have had to begin much of the work afresh. I will not, however, rid myself of her, nor even punish her. She knew not what she was doing, and that which she did was for my protection and for love of my person. Her place remains at my side or against my feet when I lie abed.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.