I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

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.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

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

Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood?