Among The Innumerable Footsteps Of Divine Providence

Unjust Force Can Never Give Any Just Dominion.

The Reader May Here Observe The Force Of Numbers, Which Can Be Successfully Applied, Even To Those Things, Which One Would Imagine Are Subject To No Rules. There Are Very Few Things Which We Know, Which Are Not Capable Of Being Reduc'd To A Mathematical Reasoning, And When They Cannot, It's A Sign Our Knowledge Of Them Is Very Small And Confus'd; And Where A Mathematical Reasoning Can Be Had, It's As Great Folly To Make Use Of Any Other, As To Grope For A Thing In The Dark When You Have A Candle Standing By You.

It Is Impossible For A Die, With Such Determined Force And Direction Which Makes It Fall On Such A Determined Side, Only I Don't Know The Force And Direction Which Makes It Fall On Such A Determin'd Side, And Therefore I Call That Chance, Which Is Nothing, But Want Of Art.

Never Contradict. Never Explain. Never Apologize. (those Are The Secrets Of A Happy Life!)

Mathematical Studies May Serve For A Pleasant Entertainment For Those Hours Which Young Men Are Apt To Throw Away Upon Their Vices.