Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.

The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility.

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.