"If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race."

"Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice."

"A thousand years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, they knew the Earth was flat. Fifteen minutes ago, you knew we humans were alone on it. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant."