A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.

The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright.

I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got anything out of geometry. To have disliked or failed to get on with other [mathematical] subjects need mean nothing; much drill and drudgery is unavoidable before they can get started, and bad teaching can make them unintelligible even to a born mathematician.

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.

The higher mental activities are pretty tough and resilient, but it is a devastating experience if the drive does stop. Some people lose it in their forties and can only stop. In England they are a source of Vice-Chancellors.

The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry.