One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

Nothing can be created out of nothing.

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.

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

A falling drop at last will carve a stone.

Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or measure. It makes no odds in which part of it you may take your stand; whatever spot anyone may occupy, the universe stretches away from him just the same in all directions without limit.

... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.