Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

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.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.

If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.