Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am."

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Time will say nothing but I told you so.

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.