Law Is A Bottomless Pit.

It Is Surprising To See What Superficial, Inconsequential Reasonings Satisfy The Most Part Of Mankind. A Piece Of Wit, A Jest, A Simile, Or A Quotation Of An Author, Passes For A Mighty Argument.... This Weakness And Effeminacy Of Mankind In Being Persuaded Where They Are Delighted, Have Made Them The Sport Of Orators, Poets, And Men Of Wit.

The Dumpling Is Indeed Of More Ancient Institution, And Of Foreign Origin; But Alas, What Were Those Dumplings? Nothing But A Few Lentils Sodden Together, Moisten'd And Cemented With A Little Seeth'd Fat.

The Mathematics Are Friends To Religion; Inasmuch As They Charm The Passions, Restrain The Impetuosity Of Imagination, And Purge The Mind From Error And Prejudice.

I Believe The Calculation Of The Quantity Of Probability Might Be Improved To A Very Useful And Pleasant Speculation, And Applied To A Great Many Events Which Are Accidental, Besides Those Of Games; Only These Cases Would Be Infinitely More Confused, As Depending On Chances Which The Most Part Of Men Are Ignorant Of.

Among The Innumerable Footsteps Of Divine Providence To Be Found In The Works Of Nature, There Is A Very Remarkable One To Be Observed In The Exact Balance That Is Maintained, Between The Numbers Of Men And Women; For By This Means It Is Provided, That The Species May Never Fail, Nor Perish, Since Every Male May Have Its Female, And Of A Proportionable Age.