Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.
To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.
We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.
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.