“Moreover, nature's blocks had to be eternal-because nothing can come from nothing.”

“Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.”

“Our imagination so magnifies the present, because we are continually thinking about it, and so reduces eternity, because we do not think about it, that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity, and all this is so strongly rooted within us that all our reason cannot save us from it.”

“If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, [Pure, hard, certain] — in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.”

“Because nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness.”

“They say there's no such thing as a perfect pearl - that nothing from nature can ever be truly perfect.”