"This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man."

"No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments."

"In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment."

"Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?"

"The best plan is to profit by the folly of others."

"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."

"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things."

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all."

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."

"We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in 'reality.' And reality has a well known liberal bias."

"For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind."

"When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize."