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"Though you, and most other Fellows of the Royal Society, are true Christians, and believers in Free Will, the very doctrines and methods that the Royal Society has promulgated have caused many to question the existence of God. ... As so much of civilization is rooted in those beliefs, this strikes me as one way in which our System of the World might be set up wrongly and thus self-doomed."

I walked a long way that night, thinking many philosophic thoughts which, fortunately, I don’t remember.

You’re greediest when you’re born, and after that it’s downhill all the way. Live to be two hundred and you wouldn’t demand anything.

He sighed, telling himself that the inevitable is a great blessing to a man weary of making choices.

There is no such thing as abstract justice. There is such a thing as law. The difference should be apparent.

"But I'd have you know that my Stupidity and my Skepticism are two sides of the same coin, and are of a very particular kind, which is carefully thought out. ... The imbalance between the grand mysteries of the Universe as opposed to our own feeble faculties, leads us to set very modest expectations as to what we shall and shan't be able to understand--and makes us passing suspicious of anyone who propounds dogma or seems to phant'sy he has got it all figured out.

"Pray explain how it is that there may be such a thing as free will, and a spirit that may do as it pleases, unbound by the Mathematick laws of our Mechanical Philosophy."

There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.

I’m sure I’ll go to heaven. I’ve been dull enough.

Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

"I tell you again. True beauty is to be found in natural forms. The more we magnify, and the closer we examine, the works of Artifice, the grosser and stupider they seem. But if we magnify the natural world it only becomes more intricate and excellent."

"Space and Time! Two minor omissions that no one is likely to notice."

It’s like marriage. The race there is between total knowledge of each other and death. If death comes first, it’s considered a successful marriage.