Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.
Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own.
Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.
A month's intelligent instruction in the theory of numbes ought to be twice as instructive, twice as useful, and at least 10 times as entertaining as the same amount of 'calculus for engineers'.
Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.