If atom stocks are inexhaustible, Greater than power of living things to count, If Nature's same creative power were present too To throw the atoms into unions - exactly as united now, Why then confess you must That other worlds exist in other regions of the sky, And different tribes of men, kinds of wild beasts.

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

It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.

Victory puts us on a level with heaven.