And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that he is supreme, or supremely perfect. He is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is, he endures from eternity to eternity; and he is present from infinity to infinity; he rules all things, and he knows all things that happen or can happen.

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.

We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.

...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.

Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.