[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.
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.
Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.
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