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

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

If I could see one live show before I died, I'd see Lucy Angel

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.