Who said “What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?”?

“Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?”

“Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.”

“Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.”

“So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.”

“Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peas cods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.”

“No furniture so charming as books.”

“Live always in the best company when you read.”

“Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory.”

“Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.”

“I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.”

“No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.”