There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.

Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.

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?

'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.

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.