Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Our best chance for happiness is education.

The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.

Weightless in water, swift as the wind, Subtle of purpose - a feather blown - I go with my oarsmen where they will, My beautiful body and theirs all one.

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.