Oh Diamond! Diamond! Thou Little Knowest The

Through Algebra You Easily Arrive At Equations, But Always To Pass Therefrom To The Elegant Constructions And Demonstrations Which Usually Result By Means Of The Method Of Porisms Is Not So Easy, Nor Is One's Ingenuity And Power Of Invention So Greatly Exercised And Refined In This Analysis.

A Heavenly Master Governs All The World As Sovereign Of The Universe. We Are Astonished At Him By Reason Of His Perfection, We Honor Him And Fall Down Before Him Because Of His Unlimited Power. From Blind Physical Necessity, Which Is Always And Everywhere The Same, No Variety Adhering To Time And Place Could Evolve, And All Variety Of Created Objects Which Represent Order And Life In The Universe Could Happen Only By The Willful Reasoning Of Its Original Creator, Whom I Call The Lord God.

I Do Not Know What I May Appear To The World, But To Myself I Seem To Have Been Only Like A Boy Playing On The Seashore, And Diverting Myself In Now And Then Finding A Smoother Pebble Or A Prettier Shell Than Ordinary, Whilst The Great Ocean Of Truth Lay All Undiscovered Before Me.

I Do Not Know What I May Appear To The World, But To Myself I Seem To Have Been Only A Boy Playing On The Seashore.

Where Both Are Friends, It Is Right To Prefer Truth.