"Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do."

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

"The greatest misfortune of all is that people are not willing to live in the present, but are always looking forward to the future."

"The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that."

"The highest good is not to be understood as an abstract, but as a concrete, as a personality."