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!

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.

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.

Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?