The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.

Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

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.

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.