Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

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.

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.

As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.