To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

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

Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.

Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.