"Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delica…"

"Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth."

"Among these Ways, or any other whatever, of generating Magnitudes, the Primary and Chief is, that perform'd by local …"

"What Mathematicians Chiefly consider in Motion is the Mode of Lation or Manner of bearing, and the Quantity of the mo…"

"For to pass by those Ancients, the wonderful Pythagoras, the sagacious Democritus, the divine Plato, the most subtle …"

"Mathematics is the fruitful Parent of, I had almost said all, Arts, the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plen…"

"These Disciplines [mathematics] serve to inure and corroborate the Mind to a constant Diligence in Study; to undergo …"

"An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator."

"Now as to what pertains to these Surd numbers (which, as it were by way of reproach and calumny, having no merit of t…"

"The Mathematics which effectually exercises, not vainly deludes or vexatiously torments studious Minds with obscure S…"