A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

Action is thought tempered by illusion.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault - resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content - but as long as you are part of the institution, do not condemn it. If you do, the first high wind that comes along will blow you away, and probably you will never know why.

I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.