Unjust Force Can Never Give

The Mathematics Are Friends To Religion, Inasmuch As They Charm The Passions, Restrain The Impetuosity Of The Imagination, And Purge The Mind From Error And Prejudice. Vice Is Error, Confusion, And False Reasoning; And All Truth Is More Or Less Opposite To It. Besides, Mathematical Studies May Serve For A Pleasant Entertainment For Those Hours Which Young Men Are Apt To Throw Away Upon Their Vices; The Delightfulness Of Them Being Such As To Make Solitude Not Only Easy, But Desirable.

The First Care In Building Of Cities, Is To Make Them Airy And Well Perflated; Infectious Distempers Must Necessarily Be Propagated Amongst Mankind Living Close Together.

All The Politics In The World Are Nothing Else But A Kind Of Analysis Of The Quantity Of Probability In Casual Events, And A Good Politician Signifies No More But One Who Is Dexterous At Such Calculations.

Mathematical Knowledge Adds A Manly Vigour To The Mind, Frees It From Prejudice, Credulity, And Superstition.

The Dumpling-eaters Are A Race Sprung Partly From The Old Epicurean And Partly From The Peripatetic Sect; They Were First Brought Into Britain By Julius Caesar; And Finding It A Land Of Plenty, They Wisely Resolved Never To Go Home Again.