[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.

The business of everybody is the business of nobody.

Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.