Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

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.

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

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