Truth Can Never Be An Enemy To

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

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

He That Sows His Grain Upon Marble Will Have Many A Hungry Belly Before His Harvest.

Hocus Was An Old Cunning Attorney. The Words Of Consecration, "hoc Est Corpus," Were Travestied Into A Nickname For Jugglery, As "hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History Of The English People, 1874. See Charles Macklin.

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.