"Close your mouth, Michael; we are not a codfish."

"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them."

"Love is not just an ecstasy, not just an intense feeling. It is a driving force. It is something that carries us through our life of joyful duty."

"A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog."

"The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics."

"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."

"A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice."

"Man: the glory, jest, and riddle of the world."

"REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it."

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."

"The search for truth begins with the doubt of all 'truths' in which one has previously believed."

"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer."