To Bliss Unknown By Lofty Soul Aspires,

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.

Law Is A Bottomless Pit.

Truth Can Never Be An Enemy To True Religion, Which Appears Always To The Best Advantage When It Is Most Examined.

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.

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.