Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten, and the man lies stunned and stricken. Then let the comforter be silent; let him sustain by his presence, not by his preaching; by his sympathetic silence, not by his speech.

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.