Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.

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.

'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.

Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For in all these Hypotheses the Phaenomena of Light have been hitherto explain'd by supposing that they arise from new Modifications of the Rays; which is an erroneous Supposition.

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

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.