I use the Scriptures, not as an arsenal to be resorted to only for arms and weapons, but as a matchless temple, where I delight to be, to contemplate the beauty, the symmetry, and the magnificence of the structure, and to increase my awe, and excite my devotion to the Deity there preached and adored.

I use the Scriptures, not as an arsenal to be resorted to only for arms and weapons, but as a matchless temple, where I delight to be, to contemplate the beauty, the symmetry, and the magnificence of the structure, and to increase my awe, and excite my devotion to the Deity there preached and adored.

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

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 would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.

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

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