What goes up must come down.

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

You have to make the rules, not follow them

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

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.

Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall ferment and transpires again grosses exhalations. And, according to the condition of all other things living, ought to have its time of beginning, youth, old age and perishing.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent