I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of an intelligent Agent. For it became him who created them to set them in order: and if he did so, it is unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature.

Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.

Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]

If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.