The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.
Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.
Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.
A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.