A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.

Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely — which is why superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.

If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."

Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.