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.

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

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

Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

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.

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.