Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.

I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.

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.