It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.

Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.

I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.