Wherefore For The Public Interest And Benefit

Mathematics - The Unshaken Foundation Of Sciences, And The Plentiful Fountain Of Advantage To Human Affairs.

That Men Should Live Honestly, Quietly, And Comfortably Together, It Is Needful That They Should Live Under A Sense Of God's Will, And In Awe Of The Divine Power, Hoping To Please God, And Fearing To Offend Him, By Their Behaviour Respectively.

He Who Loveth A Book Will Never Want A Faithful Friend, A Wholesome Counsellor, A Cheerful Companion, Or An Effectual Comforter.

Nothing Hath Wrought More Prejudice To Religion, Or Brought More Disparagement Upon Truth, Than Boisterous And Unseasonable Zeal.

No Adversity Is In Kind Or Degree Peculiar To Us; But If We Survey The Conditions Of Other Men (of Our Brethren Everywhere, Of Our Neighbours All About Us), And Compare Our Case With Theirs, We Shall Find That We Have Many Consorts And Associates In Adversity, Most As Ill, Many Far Worse Bestead Than Ourselves; Whence It Must Be A Great Fondness And Perverseness To Be Displeased That We Are Not Exempted From, But Exposed To Bear A Share In The Common Troubles And Burdens Of Mankind.