A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their convictions.

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

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

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.