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

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.

Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased Himself to the sufferance of the extremest of indignities, and sunk himself to the bottom of abjectness, to exalt our condition to the contrary extreme.

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

Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.

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

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