If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

But to rationalize faith is not to admit the superiority of philosophy over religion.

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.