"Fields medalists are nothing out of the ordinary at Princeton—you sometimes find yourself seated next to three or fou…"

"If paparazzi specialized in mathematical celebrities they'd camp outside the dining hall at the IAS and come away wit…"

"When you are into mathematics, you have been so high on the scale of complexity of reasoning that you are living in s…"

"Le désir de s'enrichir est leur passion dominante, et à vrai dire leur seule passion."

"Although Champollion was an avowed revolutionary and an enthusiastic Bonapartist, one of his earliest discoveries dis…"

"... many Europeans today go to Pelasgians, who are no less distant or savage, and for equally slight gains, to discov…"

"The woman who loves us is only a woman, but the woman we love is a celestial being whose defects disappear under the …"

"A woman by whom we are loved is a vanity; a woman whom we love is a religion."

"Esteem is the strongest of all sympathies."

"A corrupted and weakened community breaks down in immense catastrophes; the iron harrow of revolutions crushes men li…"