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.

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

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer or maker; yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker! Now tell me by what sort of reasoning do you reach such an incongruous conclusion?

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.

'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.