College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

We are all beggars, each in his own way.

You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

To be busy is man's only happiness.

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.