The stupid are invincible.

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free development of the talents of all men, we shall not be in want of the means to approach such a state.

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!