...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called dillettanti, physicians, jurists, and so forth.Lamenting the fragmentary time left to a professor has remaining after fulfilling his teaching duties.

The Infinite is only a manner of speaking.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

In mathematics there are no true controversies.

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.