Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.

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

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

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.

I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.

I'm smiled out, talked out, quipped out, socialized so far from any being, I need the weight of mortal silences to get realized back into myself.

If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.