It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.

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.

...if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.

You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.

So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.

Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.

Continual dropping wears away a stone.