It is not strange to me that persons of the fair sex should like, in all things about them, the handsomeness for which they find themselves most liked.

In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

He that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there.

The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures of God. For many have not only look'd upon it, as an impossible thing to compass, but as something impious to attempt.