Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

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

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.