Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.

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

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

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.