Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
译文：议论别人的不足之处，这不能叫做直爽，帮助别人做坏事，这不能叫做义气。赏析：闲谈莫论人非，对别人的缺点和不足揪着不放，这不是一个智者所为，帮助别人做坏事，不是善举，而是助纣为虐。
分析和代数之间的相互作用是数论中许多突破的驱动力。