The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.

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

Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's embrace.

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.

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.

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.