Biography Is One Of The New Terrors

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.

Truth Is The Same Thing To The Understanding, As Music To The Ear, And Beauty To The Eye.

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.

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.

When I Became Thoroughly Acquainted With The Greek And Roman Authors, I Thought It Incumbent Upon Me To Do Something Towards The Honor Of The Place Of My Nativity, And To Vindicate The Rhetoric Of This Ancient Forum Of Our Metropolis From The Aspersions Of The Illiterate By Composing A Treatise Of The Alercation Of The Ancients; Wherein I Have Demonstrated That The Purity, Sincerity, And Simplicity Of Their Diction Is Nowhere So Well Preserved As Amongst My Neighbourhood.