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

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.

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.

I use the Scriptures, not as an arsenal to be resorted to only for arms and weapons, but as a matchless temple, where I delight to be, to contemplate the beauty, the symmetry, and the magnificence of the structure, and to increase my awe, and excite my devotion to the Deity there preached and adored.

Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.

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

Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.