The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

Charles Fox said that restorations were the most bloody of all revolutions; and he might have added that reformations are the best mode of preventing the necessity of either.

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.