Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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.
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
How many evils have flowed from religion.
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.