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

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

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

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

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.

The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.

From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.