The Past Is Pregnant With The Present.

According To Their [newton And His Followers] Doctrine, God Almighty Wants To Wind Up His Watch From Time To Time: Otherwise It Would Cease To Move. He Had Not, It Seems, Sufficient Foresight To Make It A Perpetual Motion. Nay, The Machine Of God's Making, So Imperfect, According To These Gentlemen; That He Is Obliged To Clean It Now And Then By An Extraordinary Concourse, And Even To Mend It, As Clockmaker Mends His Work.

There Are Also Two Kinds Of Truths: Truth Of Reasoning And Truths Of Fact.

Every Present State Of A Simple Substance Is The Natural Consequence Of Its Preceding State, In Such A Way That Its Present Is Big With Its Future.

We Should Like Nature To Go No Further; We Should Like It To Be Finite, Like Our Mind; But This Is To Ignore The Greatness And Majesty Of The Author Of Things.

The Larger The Mass Of Collected Things, The Less Will Be Their Usefulness. Therefore, One Should Not Only Strive To Assemble New Goods From Everywhere, But One Must Endeavor To Put In The Right Order Those That One Already Possesses.