The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

Boys are the cash of war.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.

A university is a reading and discussion club. If students knew how to use the library, they wouldn't need the rest of the buildings. The faculty's job, in great part, is to teach students how to use a library in a living way. All a student should really need is access to the library and a place to sleep.