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

"To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose oneself."

"The unhappy man is one who has the future for his present."

"The most common deception is when a person deceives himself; the next most common is when he deceives others; the least common is when he deceives himself into believing that he is deceiving others."

"The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off as quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc., is sure to be noticed."