For three days now this angel, almost too heavenly for earth has been my fiancée ... Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant colours. Upon his engagement to Johanne Osthof of Brunswick; they married 9 Oct 1805.

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.

I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.