Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?

The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.

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.

Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present.

The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.

The sum of all sums is eternity.