Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.

One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

How many evils have flowed from religion.

For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

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.

For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.