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• It must be so,--Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality?
  Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught?...
• Long computations which yield zero are probably all for naught.
• The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics. -- Plato (428-348? B.C.)
• Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. -- Plato
• Force is but might," the teacher said-- "That definition's just.
  The boy said naught but thought instead, Remembering his pounded head...
• Alas for love, if thou wert all, And naught beyond, O Earth!
  -- Felicia D. Hemas (1794-1835) -- The Graves of a Household...