Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The phenomena open to our observation so not contradict this conclusion or conflict with it. Rather they lead us by the hand and compel us to believe that the animate is born, as I maintain, of the insentient.

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

You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.

... 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.

The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

A falling drop at last will carve a stone.