"Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation."

"A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant."

"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."

"The art of living is discovering that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"It is a radiant truth that great leaders cultivate leaders, not merely followers."

"It is a profound truth that the greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"True knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution."