A secret is a kind of promise.... It can also be a prison.

Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.

Stupidity makes you dangerous--to yourself and everyone around you.

The bulk of fine scholarship ... moves at the slow and stately pace of a royal procession or the evolution of a new species.

Laughter in the face of danger is a mark of courage.

Reputation, my dear, reputation. Lose it, and you have lost the immortal part of yourself. What remains is no more than bestial.

The Truth, with a capital T, is what ought to be. Not simply what was, or what is.