Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

We have time enough if we but use it aright

Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.