God Alone Is The Author Of All

Except Our Own Thoughts, There Is Nothing Absolutely In Our Power.

In Order To Improve The Mind, We Ought Less To Learn, Than To Contemplate.

Mathematics Is A More Powerful Instrument Of Knowledge Than Any Other That Has Been Bequeathed To Us By Human Agency.

Common Sense Is The Most Fairly Distributed Thing In The World, For Each One Thinks He Is So Well-endowed With It That Even Those Who Are Hardest To Satisfy In All Other Matters Are Not In The Habit Of Desiring More Of It Than They Already Have.

The Principal Use Of Prudence, Of Self-control, Is That It Teaches Us To Be Masters Of Our Passions, And To So Control And Guide Them That The Evils Which They Cause Are Quite Bearable, And That We Even Derive Joy From Them All.