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

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

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

Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight.

Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.

Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To assert the natural liberty of man, By senseless terrors and vain fancies let To slavery. Straight the conquered phantoms fled.