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

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

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.

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.

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

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