The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice.

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.

Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

Unjust force can never give any just dominion.

Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as exercise is for procuring health and strength to the body.

Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

What are you doing here?”All right, he was standing in front of an easel, holding a paint palette and brush. “Taxidermy?” he responded with just a touch of his own sarcasm.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

Words define you.

Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

We say to others only what we need to hear

It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.

It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.

No scheme pays as well as legitimate business.

Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.