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

I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.

An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

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

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.

I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.