“Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.”

“If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve: find it.”

“The first rule of style is to have something to say. The second rule of style is to control yourself when, by chance, you have two things to say; say first one, then the other, not both at the same time.”

“He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.”

“Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.”

“Who says that fictions only and false hairBecome a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?Is all good structure in a winding stair?”

“Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.”