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

Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.

Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.