The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty...

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty...

We ask advice, but we mean approbation.

We ask advice, but we mean approbation.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had...

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had...

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable...

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable...

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man,...

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man,...

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had...

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had...

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from...

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from...

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would...

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would...

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not...

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not...

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled...

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled...

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put...

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put...

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no...

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no...

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them...

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them...

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more...

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more...

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they...

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they...

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.