The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived, even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has not yet been discovered.

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

You can't control a young horse unless you control yourself.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.