There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking.

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.