In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one another are intricate and periodic; in fact, "galaxy" is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions.

We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.