How is it that the sky feeds the stars?

One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

It was certainly not by design that the particles fell into order, they did not work out what they were going to do, but because many of them by many chances struck one another in the course of infinite time and encountered every possible form and movement, that they found at last the disposition they have, and that is how the universe was created.

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.