Law is a bottomless pit.

Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.

Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.

O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.

He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.

All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

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.

To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

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.

He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

Unjust force can never give any just dominion.

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.