I Came From A Race Of Fishers;

I See On A Immense Scale, And As Clearly As In A Demonstration In A Laboratory, That Good Comes Out Of Evil; That The Impartiality Of The Nature Providence Is Best; That We Are Made Strong By What We Overcome; That Man Is Man Because He Is As Free To Do Evil As To Do Good; That Life Is As Free To Develop Hostile Forms As To Develop Friendly; That Power Waits Upon Him Who Earns It; That Disease, Wars, The Unloosened, Devastating Elemental Forces Have Each And All Played Their Part In Developing And Hardening Man And Giving Him The Heroic Fiber.

Nature Is Not Benevolent; Nature Is Just, Gives Pound For Pound, Measure For Measure, Makes No Exceptions, Never Tempers Her Decrees With Mercy, Or Winks At Any Infringement Of Her Laws.

In The Order Of Nature We May Behold The Ways Of The Eternal.

One Goes To Nature Only For Hints And Half-truths. Her Facts Are Crude Until You Have Absorbed Them Or Translated Them ... It Is Not So Much What We See As What The Thing Seen Suggests.

Joy In The Universe, And Keen Curiosity About It All - That Has Been My Religion.