The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale.

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

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

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

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

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

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

Gold may shine

People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.

I looked not for shooting stars but for fixed ones, and I would try to imagine what kind of life lived in those celestial tidal pools so far from us.

At what point in life should we stop searching for a better one?

Trust is the ultimate human currency.

Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

From abundance springs satiety.

For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.