Almost all education has a political motive.

People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable.

To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for waning faith. Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind; and this purpose should be kept always in view throughout the teaching and learning of mathematics.

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.