"Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not."

"I wish to persuade the wise and not to compel them."

"To deny one's senses and reason is to deny God's gifts."

"It is not in the power of any created being to make things true or false, but only to make us think them so."

"I do not hope for any relief, and that is because I have committed no crime."