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.

... 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.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.