I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.

Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.

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

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.

The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to see all at once, but must be content to wait for the discovery of its beauty, and symmetry, little by little, as it graduallly comes to be more and more unfolded, or displayed.

He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.

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