The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue, surpassing that of any other draught. It opens the senses, adds power, fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science; especially it creates a craving for larger draughts of itself.

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

There is no one who does not exaggerate!