... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

All life is a struggle in the dark.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring they had made; The human race began to mellow then. Because of fire their shivering forms no longer Could bear the cold beneath the covering sky.

If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.

No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.

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