Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through the immense span of the past Their natures are immortal-that is clear. Never can things revert to nothingness!

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

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?

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

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.

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.

If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.