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

Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.

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

Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due con-templation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty.

As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.

I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.

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