“Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.”

“The whole of life but labours in the dark.For just as children tremble and fear allIn the viewless dark, so even we at timesDread in the light so many things that beNo whit more fearsome than what children feign,Shuddering, will be upon them in the dark.This terror then, this darkness of the mind,Not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light,Nor glittering arrows of morning can disperse,But only nature's aspect and her law.”

“What is food to one man is bitter poison to others”

“The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.”

“Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.”

“So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.”

“What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.”

“Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.”

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

“Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of crimson than if you must lie in rude homespun.”

“Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.”