Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.

The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regulation in order to qualify us to become upright and valuable members of society, useful to others, or happy ourselves.

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

It consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.