If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.