The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
From Charles Caleb Colton
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
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