There's luck in odd numbers. [ Samuel Lover ]

Round numbers are always false. [ Johnson ]

Not an unequal match for numbers. [ Motto ]

In days of yore, the poet's pen
From wing of bird was plundered.
Perhaps of goose, but now and then,
From Jove's own eagle sundered.
But now, metallic pens disclose
Alone the poet's numbers;
In iron inspiration glows,
Or with the poet slumbers. [ John Quincy Adams ]

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream,
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem. [ Longfellow ]

If I could write the beauty of your eyes.
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say, This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches never touched earthly faces. [ William Shakespeare ]

Their numbers protect them and their compact array. [ Juv ]

When a man has no occasion to borrow, he finds numbers willing to lend him. [ Goldsmith ]

My languid numbers have forgot to flow, and fancy sinks beneath a weight of woe. [ Pope ]

As yet a child, not yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. [ Pope ]

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual? [ Pliny ]

Genius, in one respect, is like gold - numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. [ Colton ]

They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture, employ our artisans in printing, and find business for great numbers of indigent persons. [ Addison ]

Mathematics is the science which investigates the consequences which are logically deducible from any given or admitted relations between magnitudes or numbers. [ T. Galloway ]

Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself. [ W. Warburton ]

There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small. [ Goethe ]

By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the very enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry. Let the same man go to his closet and clothe in numbers conceptions full of the same fire and spirit, and they will be poetry. [ Bryant ]