Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.