[It is] useful to know the laws of nature - for that enables us to obey them. To act otherwise would be to rise in revolt against heaven.
Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?
I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not.
Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.
Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.
The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.
But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.
There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.
