To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread."

You believe that I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.