“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”

“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy”

“Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.”

“To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me”

“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.”

“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”