A Man Who Should Act, For One

[i Can] Scarcely Write Upon Mathematics Or Mathematicians. Oh For Words To Express My Abomination Of The Science.

Many Politicians Are In The Habit Of Laying It Down As A Self-evident Proposition That No People Ought To Be Free Till They Are Fit To Use Their Freedom. The Maxim Is Worthy Of The Fool In The Old Story Who Resolved Not To Go Into The Water Till He Had Learned To Swim.

I Have Long Been Convinced That Institutions Purely Democratic Must, Sooner Or Later, Destroy Liberty Or Civilization, Or Both.

Sense Can Support Herself Handsomely In Most Countries On Some Eighteen Pence A Day; But For Fantasy, Planets And Solar Systems, Will Not Suffice.

An Acre In Middlesex Is Better Than A Principality In Utopia.