“There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.”

How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.

True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.

The sum total of all sums total is eternal.

Only religion can lead to such evil.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.

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.

Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.

A falling drop at last will carve a stone.

It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.

It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.

So much wrong could religion induce.

The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).

True freedom is in the Realization that there is only God and You are That One.

Lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.

Without true celebration discipline is obnoxious.

Betrayed or apparently not Loved.

Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.

What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense.

The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’

It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.