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.

We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.

I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.

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.

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time