“We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.”

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.

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.

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body. My body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.

True friends are a single soul divided between different bodies.

It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.

I am not ashamed of anything – not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.