At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.

You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit

All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the game being the discovery of the totally unexpected.

True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

In this crucible of wickedness the true greatness of Mormon shines like a star.

Wherever we look in the ancient world the past has been controlled, but nowhere more rigorously than in the history of the Christian church. The methods of control, wherever we find them, fall under three general heads which might be described as (a) the invention, (b) the destruction, and (c) the alteration of documents.

It is throwing our life away, to think of the wrong things.