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.

God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.

Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that abound with Sulphurous Salts, (under which I comprehend the Urinous and Volatile Salts of Animal Substances, and the Alcalisate or fixed Salts that are made by Incineration) have the virtue of Restoring it.

Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.

That there is a Spring, or Elastical power in the Air we live in. By which ελατνρ [elater] or Spring of the Air, that which I mean is this: That our Air either consists of, or at least abounds with, parts of such a nature, that in case they be bent or compress'd by the weight of the incumbent part of the Atmosphere, or by any other Body, they do endeavour, as much as in them lies, to free themselves from that pressure, by bearing against the contiguous Bodies that keep them bent.

Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.

... even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.