Philosophy Is Such An Impertinently Litigious Lady

Trials Are Medicines Which Our Gracious And Wise Physician Prescribes Because We Need Them; And He Proportions The Frequency And Weight Of Them To What The Case Requires. Let Us Trust His Skill And Thank Him For His Prescription.

There Are More Sure Marks Of Authenticity In The Bible Than In Any Profane History.

It Is Indeed A Matter Of Great Difficulty To Discover, And Effectually To Distinguish, The True Motions Of Particular Bodies From The Apparent; Because The Parts Of That Immovable Space, In Which Those Motions Are Performed, Do By No Means Come Under The Observation Of Our Senses. Yet The Thing Is Not Altogether Desperate; For We Have Some Arguments To Guide Us, Partly From The Apparent Motions, Which Are The Differences Of The True Motions; Partly From The Forces, Which Are The Causes And Effects Of The True Motions.

Blind Metaphysical Necessity, Which Is Certainly The Same Always And Every Where, Could Produce No Variety Of Things. All That Diversity Of Natural Things Which We Find Suited To Different Times And Places Could Arise From Nothing But The Ideas And Will Of A Being, Necessarily Existing.

I Do Not Think That This [the Universe] Can Be Explained Only By Natural Causes, And Are Forced To Impute To The Wisdom And Ingenuity Of An Intelligent.