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

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

He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, so in all fortunes.

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.

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

Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.