You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.