The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

God is able to create particles of matter of several sizes and figures and perhaps of different densities and forces, and thereby to vary the laws of nature, and make worlds of several sorts in several parts of the Universe.

What goes up must come down.

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies inversely as the square of the distance. The law thus suggested is assumed to be universally true.