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.

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Life is given us as a passion.