Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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.
Method will teach you to win time.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.