Exposition, Criticism, Appreciation, Is Work For Second-rate

A Mathematician ... Has No Material To Work With But Ideas, And So His Patterns Are Likely To Last Longer, Since Ideas Wear Less With Time Than Words.

The Case For My Life... Is This: That I Have Added Something To Knowledge, And Helped Others To Add More

Most People Are So Frightened Of The Name Of Mathematics That They Are Ready, Quite Unaffectedly, To Exaggerate Their Own Mathematical Stupidity.

Mathematics May, Like Poetry Or Music, "promote And Sustain A Lofty Habit Of Mind."

No Mathematician Should Ever Allow Himself To Forget That Mathematics, More Than Any Other Art Or Science, Is A Young Man's Game