A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result — ruthlessness in political life.

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan.

The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.