Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.

When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.

What goes up must come down.

The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these, and to such like Questions.

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

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.