Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.

The lover of letters loves power too.

Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.

Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.