The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.

My body is not a tomb for animals.

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.

Every man at three years old is half his height

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.