Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.

From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society... has been steadily growing.

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

I'm too busy. I have no time for worry.

My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for me like the evening star. I loved her dearly.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.