When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Well done is better than well said.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

A little neglect may breed great mischief.

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.