There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

All life is a struggle in the dark.

So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

There is no place in nature for extinction.

The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.

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.