"We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education."

"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."

"How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?"

"The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless."

"The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge."

"Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed they just fail to act on that knowledge."

"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes."

"I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her."