I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small Spot.

One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves.

The world is my country. Science my religion.

The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.

What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths, and every one of them stock’d with so many Herbs, Trees and Animals, and adorn’d with so many Seas and Mountains! And how must our wonder and admiration be encreased when we consider the prodigious distance and multitude of the Stars?

It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet.