Continual dropping wears away a stone.

How many evils have flowed from religion.

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.

There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa)

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

At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The phenomena open to our observation so not contradict this conclusion or conflict with it. Rather they lead us by the hand and compel us to believe that the animate is born, as I maintain, of the insentient.

... 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.