We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand-the habit of mind which theologians call, and rightly, faith in God.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.

The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those conceptions of form and number which every human being possesses; and any person of average intellect can make himself a fair mathematician if he will only pay continuous attention; in plain English, think enough about the subject.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.