To become what you are not, behave as you do not.

The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.

I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.

No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other. They should be independent of the governments of the countries in which they are situated. They should not be institutions for the training of an efficient bureaucracy, or for equipping scientists to get the better of foreign scientists; they should stand for the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.