Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.