He That Sows His Grain Upon Marble

Biography Is One Of The New Terrors Of Death.

To Bliss Unknown By Lofty Soul Aspires, My Lot Unequal To My Vast Desires.

Law Is A Bottomless-pit, It Is A Cormorant, A Harpy, That Devours Every Thing.

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.

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.