So much wrong could religion induce.

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

There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa)

Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present.

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

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.