A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

I hate war, for it spoils conversation.

It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.

A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.