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

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

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

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.

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.

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

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