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.

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.

How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

Our claim to our own bodies and our world is our catastrophe.