Man upon this earth must expect everything, and ought to face everything.[L’homme, sur cette terre, doit s’attendre à tout, affronter tout.]
It’s just natural, it’s not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it’s The End of The Earth. It’s only a rock group that split up, it’s nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.
It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our earth is very much like what an old hen would know of a hundred acre field, in a corner of which she is scratching.
If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.[Если бога с земли изгонят, мы под землей его сретим!]
God grant that not only the Love of Liberty but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man may pervade all the Nations of the Earth so that a Philosopher may set his Foot any where on its Surface and say, this is my Country.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
