Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.

Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.

He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, so in all fortunes.

Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.