“- Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff: Tomorrow we start tearing down the college.
- Professor in Wagstaff's Study: But, Professor, where will the students sleep?
- Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff: Where they always sleep: in the classroom.”
Groucho Marx - Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff
E.H. Calvert - Professor in Wagstaff's Study

“A magnificence that comes out of your eyes, in your voice, in the way you stand there, in the way you walk. You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.”

James Stewart - Macaulay Connor

“- Lee Donley: I believe this is how the Chicago fire got started.
- Gloria Anderson: The Chicago fire was started by a cow.
- Lee Donley: History repeats itself.”

Ann Sheridan - Lee Donley
Helen Vinson - Gloria Anderson

“It's a kind of magic. Firelight makes time stand still. When you put out the lamps and sit in the firelight's glow there aren't any rules any more.”

Sophie Marceau - Elisabeth Laurier

“This flame, like all flames, represents the light and darkness. It also represents the uncertainty of life and its delicacy.”
John Michael Higgins - Terry Bohner