The inspired and expired air may be sometimes very useful, by condensing and cooling the blood that passeth through the lungs; I hold that the depuration of the blood in that passage, is not only one of the ordinary, but one of the principal uses of respiration.

He that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there.

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

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.

Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

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

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.