The sum of all sums is eternity.

The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

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.

Falling drops will at last wear away stone.

Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.

Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.