All life is a struggle in the dark.
... 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.
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through
Such crimes has superstition caused.
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.