In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

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.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

Thrift is a great revenue.