“Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.”

“Keynes ultimately placed his hopes for good government in exceptional men. The focus in Hayek’s work was rules.”

“A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.”

“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.”

“The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.”

“An exception is nothing else than a rule that applies exceptionally.”

“The rule of law is not an exception to rule by fear; it is the fulfillment of rule by fear.”

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

“In the Hindu sphere of influence, by contrast, this kind of sobriety and intellectual discipline is the exception rather than the rule. Serious integrated teaching of Vedic tradition is as yet available only on the margin, as in the Arsha Vidya Gurukulam.”

“The controversy between rule of law and rule of men was never relevant to women — because, along with juveniles, imbeciles, and other classes of legal nonpersons, they had no access to law except through men.”