Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

Man was formed for society.