"The advance and perfecting of mathematics are..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.”

“I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.”

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”

“I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.”

“We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.”

“Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.”

“Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.”

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.”

“The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices - submit or fight. That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in our power in defence of our people, our future, and our freedom”