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Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever. - The Brook.

Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor! - Aeneid, The.

Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon."N.B.: Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire. - Pensees d'Aout.

A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.

At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what now you feel;Achilles absent was Achilles still:Yet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid. - Iliad, The.

As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd stay away. - The Psychoed.

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

I would live to study, and not study to live.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -- they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.

The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.