You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.

Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!" -D'Artagnan