This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

You have to make the rules, not follow them

Those qualities of bodies that cannot be intended and remitted [i.e., qualities that cannot be increased and diminished] and that belong to all bodies on which experiments can be made should be taken as qualities of all bodies universally.

Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

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.

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