Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.

America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.

If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.

Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility.

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.

An evening everyone agrees, is a lost evening.