The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

[T]he sciences that are expressed by numbers or by other small signs, are easily learned; and... this facility rather than its demonstrability is what has made the fortune of algebra.

The nice thing about mathematics is doing mathematics.

Mathematics offers a common language across borders. It is a real joy.

My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

People who are good with money are good with (basic) mathematics, and vice versa.

The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism.

One does not have to have experience raising children through school, dealing with family tragedies, and so forth, to be able to find three numbers whose fourth powers add up to another one.

Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.

Loosely translated: With me, everything turns into mathematics.

Every true mathematician sees mathematics everywhere—in a child's swing or a pendulum, in the outline shape of a tree and that of its leaves, in the clouds