And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when, in a ….

Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay..

Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day..

In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of ….

The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and t….

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection..

If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making fixed bodies volatile, and volatil….

God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes..

God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion..

And, to prevent mistakes, I must advertize you, that I now mean by elements, as those chymists that speak plainest do by their principles, certain pr….

And first, it seems not at all probable, That if the Omniscient Author of Nature knew that the study of his Works did really tend to make Men disbeli….

Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased Himself to the sufferance of the ex….

As the moon, though darkened with spots, gives us a much greater light than the stars that sewn all-luminous, so do the Scriptures afford more light ….

I use the Scriptures, not as an arsenal to be resorted to only for arms and weapons, but as a matchless temple, where I delight to be, to contemplate….

The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatur….

And let me adde, that he that throughly understands the nature of Ferments and Fermentations, shall probably be much better able than he that Ignores….

That there is a Spring, or Elastical power in the Air we live in. By which ελατνρ [elater] or Spring of the Air, that which I mean is this: That our ….

Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due con-templation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from ….

The inspired and expired air may be sometimes very useful, by condensing and cooling the blood that passeth through the lungs; I hold that the depura….

The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to see all at once, but must be content to wait for the dis….

The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of mans redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation..