For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own.

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy.