All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human soul, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

To be is to be perceived

The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of Nature.

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.