Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

How is it that the sky feeds the stars?

It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.

... 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.

Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.

If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give liquor its right name, so be it; and let him dub the round world "Mother of the Gods" so long as he is careful not really to infest his mind with base superstitions.

Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfections.