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

Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.

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

We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.

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

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