The tin man

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under your observation in life. # Nature, which governs the whole, will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things, and again other things from the substance of them, in order that the world may ever be new. # Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you. # Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but they are unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.