"Let me die in this old uniform in which I fought my battles. May God forgive me for ever having put on another."

"“The author of the history of Mahmood Shah relates, that in the year AH 872 , the King saw the holy Prophet in a dream, who presented before him a magnificent banquet of the most delicate viands. This…"

"What mathematics, therefore are expected to do for the advanced student at the university, Arithmetic, if taught demonstratively, is capable of doing for the children even of the humblest school. It f…"

"The unpayable debt that I owe to him was not "influence" as it is ordinarily understood, but sheer encouragement. He was for long my only audience. Only from him did I ever get the idea that my "stuff…"

"When Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is. I'm not crazy about those cocks and asses and flying violinists and all the folklore, but his canvasses a…"