Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.