The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.

A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.

I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.