At one time a standard test for carriage riding was to stand a pencil on end on the compartment floor, or to measure how long it was possible to stand on one leg without touching the corridor walls; ….

an inflammation of the mind, of the body politic, or of parties

A celibate himself, he was of the opinion that marriage was something of a concession to human frailty, to save from fornication those who could not be continent, so it was better to marry than to burn with lust.

For such is the natural order of things that externally proceeding should be suspended from inward energy, the whole world from the allperfect monad of ideas, and the parts of the visible universe from monads which are separated from each other.