Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

They condemn what they do not understand.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

What is more agreeable than one's home?