Richard Bentley. 1662-1742

It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.

Monk's Life of Bentley. Page 90.

"Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like.[284:3]

Declaration of Rights.

The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms.[284:4]

Sermons, vii. Works, Vol. iii. p. 147 (1692).