The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune.

A chess problem is simply an exercise in pure mathematics.

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."

The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.

I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

The case for my life... is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more