No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

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

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.

That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.