Poetry Is A Kind Of Ingenious Nonsense.

The Seed Of A Tree Has The Nature Of A Branch Or Twig Or Bud. It Is A Part Of The Tree, But If Separated And Set In The Earth To Be Better Nourished, The Embryo Or Young Tree Contained In It Takes Root And Grows Into A New Tree.

Godliness Consists In The Knowledge Love & Worship Of God, Humanity In Love, Righteousness & Good Offices Towards Man.

If Two Angels Were Sent Down From Heaven -one To Conduct An Empire And The Other To Sweep The Streets -they Would Feel No Inclination To Change Employment Because An Angel Would Know That No Matter What We Are Doing, It's An Opportunity To Bring Joy, Deepen Our Understanding And Expand Our Life.

What Descartes Did Was A Good Step. You Have Added Much Several Ways, And Especially In Taking The Colours Of Thin Plates Into Philosophical Consideration. If I Have Seen A Little Further It Is By Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants.

That One Body May Act Upon Another At A Distance Through A Vacuum, Without The Mediation Of Any Thing Else, By And Through Which Their Action And Force May Be Conveyed From One To Another, Is To Me So Great An Absurdity, That I Believe No Man, Who Has In Philosophical Matters A Compentent Faculty Of Thinking, Can Ever Fall Into It.