Nothing comes from nothing.

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

Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.

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.

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!

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

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.