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

...if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.

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

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.

Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight.