There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that of men; not self-will, and government by self-control, but submission and yielding to the control of others. All the moralities tell them that it is their nature to live for others; to make complete abnegation of themselves, and to have no life but in their affections.

To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures.

When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.