I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.
I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.
The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.