“Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.”

“Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.”

“Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.”

“Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.”

“Doubt breeds doubt.”

“For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but the Free; but rather to the Philosophers, who say, that the Well-educated alone are free.”

“Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I'm not the only one who believes this. Please. As a culture, ...”

“If You want to be an educated person follow nobody, but learn from everybody”

“Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.”

“To every rule there is an exceptionand an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!”

“There's an exception to every rule, Nora. And you've never failed at being the exception before.”

“Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.”

“Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.”

“The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual.”