As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than their, it is because they are made with ideas.

There is nothing left in your right brain, and there is nothing right in your left brain..

Writing is also an art.

Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.

I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.

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

Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.

I remain God's humble servant.

Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.

Opening yourself up to making mistakes and being vulnerable is what makes it beautiful and special with the person you love.