“We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.”

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.

Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.

Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.

Physics, beware of metaphysics.

I feign no hypotheses.

Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.

The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.

It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.

There is no justice without accountability.

The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.

Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.

Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.

Give someone responsibility and they will do their best. Make them accountable and they will do even better.