It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has done to a considerable degree in….

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others..

To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you ar….

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting..

It is sufficiently evident from many circumstances, that the doctrine of the divinity of Christ did not establish itself without much opposition, esp….

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing ver….

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire..

The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air; but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light and easy for som….

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one ….

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other pers….

When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself u….

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write..

Let us not... contend about merit , but let us all be intent on forwarding the common enterprize , and equally enjoy any progress we may make towards….

This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names..

The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more light ge….

From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other ….

How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world. Government, we may now expect to ….

As I conceive this doctrine to be a gross misrepresentation of the character and moral government of God, and to affect many other articles in the sc….

Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John , and making of it a second person in the trinity, ….

The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new ideas are continually f….

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with..