All the trees were stripped of their leaves and shattered; the beasts in the field lay dead; many of the herdsmen had also been killed; we observed large quantities of hailstones which could not have been grasped with two hands. ” ​ — Autobiography (Book II, 50), Harvard Classics, Volume 31, pages 352 - 3.
એ ખોબામાં પણ સમાય નહિ એટલા મોટા હતા. ’ — ઑટોબાયોગ્રાફી (બીજું પુસ્તક, ૫૦), હાર્વર્ડ ક્લાસિક્સ, ભાગ ૩૧, પાન ૩૫૨ - ૩.