This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One; especially since the light of the fixed stars is of the same nature with the light of the sun.

When two forces unite, their efficiency double.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

To derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phænomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things follow from those manifest Principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

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

Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.