A book ought to be the ax to break the frozen sea within us.

And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.