“To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.”

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!

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.

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

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.

There’s no need to rush, what’s meant for you, will always arrive on time.

When I arrived, at first a lot of people were like, ‘This kid is different.’

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.

It is better to travel, than to arrive.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

You can copy someone else’s paper but you’ll never know how you arrived at your answer.