His Enemies Might Have Said Before That

[t]he 47th Proposition In Euclid Might Now Be Voted Down With As Much Ease As Any Proposition In Politics; And Therefore If Lord Hawkesbury Hates The Abstract Truths Of Science As Much As He Hates Concrete Truth In Human Affairs, Now Is His Time For Getting Rid Of The Multiplication Table, And Passing A Vote Of Censure Upon The Pretensions Of The Hypotenuse.

Human Beings Cling To Their Delicious Tyrannies And To Their Exquisite Nonsense, Till Death Stares Them In The Face.

You Find People Ready Enough To Do The Samaritan, Without The Oil And Twopence.

What Would Life Be Without Arithmetic, But A Scene Of Horrors?

Poverty Is No Disgrace To A Man, But It Is Confoundedly Inconvenient.