Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

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

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

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.